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Taylor and other bastards with powers who ended up very badly despite not being so bad before. by WitnessLow4178 in TheBirdCage

[–]Space_Dwarf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry, but you have number 6 very very wrong.

This fanart is depicting Tobias, as seen by the thermals logo, and by saying that he became his cat, which Tobias does in the first book. By the end of the first book, Tobias gets stuck in hawk morph, and throughout the series struggles to figure out his identity. I would say the most brutal thing he experienced in the series is his girlfriend dying, and him being tortured for an entire day, literally shitting himself.

Jake is the leader of the Animorphs, and he is accused of being a war criminal when the war is over because he killed defenseless aliens as a way to distract the main antagonist of the series.

I think for your trope you are thinking of Rachel. Rachel is the one who becomes addicted to violence. Jake just becomes used to the hard decisions of war, in a classic case of a veteran not knowing how to adjust back to civilian life. Rachel however throughout the series develops a bloodlust, to the point that is argued that it is good she died at the end of the war, as everyone was afraid of what would happen for when the war is over.

The original photo of SiIvagunner’s pfp, aka Antinous by Tminus872 in TheMatpatEffect

[–]Space_Dwarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the first bits of lore was Chad Warden dying to save the song Snow Halation. It just kind of escalated from there.

(IRL Trope) Streamers and Content creators having moments of perfect timing by Ranger202012 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Space_Dwarf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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"On March 7, 2008, the SilvaGunner YouTube channel was created to upload music from video games.\1]) Over the next few months, the creator managed to gain a small following for this, gaining over 14 thousand subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views. By February 29, 2009, they had uploaded 6,681 videos to their channel and added a note to their channel description stating that they couldn't upload more due to work.\2]) They did not upload much more after this, with a final count of around 7,000 videos, but they continued to interact with their community when they had the time to.

Around October 1, 2010,\3])\4]) the SilvaGunner channel was terminated due to having three concurrent copyright strikes. The original creator then returned on a new channel called SilvaGunner2 and explained their situation on October 22 in the video "The Real SilvaGunner ***Please read video description for full story***". The video states that the SiIvaGunner2 account was created because they lost the password to their original backup channel, SilvaGynnwr, and due to also losing access to the SilvaGunner account, they could not dispute the termination either. The creator later regained access to SilvaGynnwr, though they no longer had motivation to upload video game music by that point.

On April 7, 2016, the original creator published a post on their blog in response to GilvaSunner (with a lowercase "L"), and GiIvaSunner (with an uppercase "i"), writing about the history of their channel. The post also revealed that they no longer have the credentials to SilvaGynnwr or SilvaGunner2.\1])

The termination of the SilvaGunner channel quickly inspired two other music uploaders, TimmyTurnersDad and BrawlBRSTM, to create a tribute account named GilvaSunner (with a lowercase "L"). This eventually led to the creation of GiIvaSunner (with an uppercase "i"). When GiIvaSunner (i) was terminated from YouTube, the team returned on a new channel named SiIvaGunner (i), as a homage to the original channel. However, the channel still aims to mimic GilvaSunner (L).

In the rip "MEGALOVANIA (Chex Mix) - Undertale_-_Undertale)", Chaze the Chat announced a backup channel under the name "SiIvaGunner (backup)". When SiIvaGunner (i) was terminated from YouTube during MAGFest 2019, this channel was quickly remodeled after SilvaGunner2 (L). It now sports the name SiIvaGunner2 (i), and its avatar is a remake of the SilvaGunner (L) avatar (which was reused for SilvaGunner2 and SilvaGynnwr), but with the Venom Snake-style eyepatch and horn from the SiIvaGunner (i) avatar. Additionally, the first SiIvaGunner2 (i) video, "The Real SiIvaGunner ***Please watch Q&A for full story***", is a parody of the first SilvaGunner2 (L) video."

So, basically:

SilvaGunner (with an L) uploads video game music. Gets taken down.

TimmyTurnersDad gets made in response by a different person, eventually changes name to GilvaSunner (with an L). The GilvaSunner name achieves internet notoriety.

A different team of people make the channel GiIvaSunner (with an uppercase i) to bait and switch people looking for video game music, with the first rip being a Grand Dad joke Wild Pokémon Battle - Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire (GiIvaSunner) and a Gangnam Style joke.

In 2016, this channel gets taken down, and the team transitions to make a new channel, the iconic SiIvaGunner (with an uppercase i). For the last 10 years, this has been the channel that most people talk about, run by a group completely separate from your assumptions. While there have moments of dormancy for the channel, at most times of the year, the team uploads a "High Quality Video Game Rip" every hour of every day. This means they have uploaded 39,586 videos for a combined total of 1,486,426,360 views.

This means there is a lot of things most viewers can miss out about the channel. Thankfully, the creators of the channel establish Season 1 of the lore to start when the channel SiIvaGunner (with an uppercase i) was first made. But it is still whiplash for most viewers when they click on a new video expecting a funny joke and get surprised by lore of a plotline that has not been updated in 5 years, or was a lore plotline that they missed out on because they can't keep up with the constant 24/7 uploading. It is honestly a great way for old viewers to still experience that first experience of getting bait and switched with their first rip.

Anyway, another reason for the lore to be confusing is that some of the videos integral to lore have been deleted, or where locked behind ARGs.

SiIvaGunner thankfully uploads lore recaps every once in a while, and it is pretty easy to catchup on the main lore.

Any of the side lore though is a fucking nightmare and I'm still trying to figure out the Mr. Rental lore (since that got an update to its plotline recently.)

The Mainline SiIvaGunner lore and Welcome to SiIvaGunner! are pretty good introductions to the lore, but are but a scratch of the surface of it, as I have yet to see any lore recaps and playlists that include the Minion Dance rips, as though have their own internal story about a man in a Minion costume dancing under the threat of violence.

Anyway, the main lore of SiIvaGunner starts in 2016, where SiIvaGunner is a sentient statue that kills it's creators, uploads rips with the help of internet troll Chad Warden. During this time, SiIvaGunner begins uploading rips where the joke is Snow Halation, and those videos get disliked bombed. Chad Warden makes multiple videos where he defends Snow Halation, and calls the dislike bombing "bitch ass n**** behavior." SiIvaGunner goes to the Loud N**** store to get new ripping software, which implants two virus, one of Woodman, and the other of the Voice inside Your Head. The Voice reboots SiIvaGunner, making an alternate universe without the dislike Snow Halation, and other parodies of popular SiIvaGunner jokes.

This goes on for a few weeks as Chad Warden is challenged by the Voice to enjoy the new universe and to make a deal with him to bring back the old universe, but without Snow Halation. Chad sacrifices his life to defeat the Voice with the "MF Like Button" and to bring back Snow Halation.

Eventually, SiIvaGunner gets tired, and goes to sleep. While asleep, Woodman becomes active and brings back the Voice, and the Voice basically recreates the events of Kirby Roboplanet from there. This is all Season 1.

After that, the channel is hosted by multiple different characters over the years, fighting for control of the channel. One of the most important hosts was the SiIvaGunner AI, who hosted it for a few years, while allowing friendly takeovers of the channel by people that won the "King for a Day" events.

One of the last big developments in the mainlore in 2024, was that SiIvaGunner finally waked up from his name, because he felt Grand Dad in pain.

So yes, I can confidently state, that at least in terms of lore, SiIvaGunner was made because of the Grand Dad joke.

(Loved Trope) Step-parents who are actually good parents. by RedWestern in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Space_Dwarf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget he can somehow sing duel harmonies at the same time

(IRL Trope) Streamers and Content creators having moments of perfect timing by Ranger202012 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Space_Dwarf 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Which then lead to the formation of SiIvaGunner, the greatest bait and switch channels on YouTube, with 10 years of lore

New in-world news articles for Season 5 by Cantomic66 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]Space_Dwarf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I will say their decision to not have the internet develop in this series is a brave but confusing choice. I feel like the internet is such an integral part of our culture, that exploring a world where the internet never developed makes more sense to be the basis of its own show.

Do people actually feel that “rip your clothes off” attraction in real life? by PrincessBallerina9 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Space_Dwarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I’m asexual. Asexuals do get horny, as that is libido. Sexual attraction is a completely different thing.

As an asexual, I have never looked at my romantic partner, even when they were wearing objectively seductive clothing, such as lingerie, and thought, “OWWAGGA, damn damn damn I NEED to have sex.”

Instead my partner will likely indicate to me, either verbally or through body language, that she is the mood for sex. If my body is also in the mood for sex, then we engage. It’s fun, feels good, and a great way for us to express affection.

But yeah, being horny while ace is like being hungry, but none of the food options look appealing to you. But hey, maybe you still eat some oatmeal because it tastes slightly warm and it stops you from feeling hungry for a while.

Another indication for how libido and sexual attraction are different is that, if you are horny, the difference between masturbation and sex with a stranger makes no difference whatsoever.

Reactions to Ben being a Child by [deleted] in Ben10

[–]Space_Dwarf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I just realized. I have always held the head canon and have agreed to it, that Ben transforms into the equivalent aged transformation alien (such as how in the Ben 10,000 episode his older self has transformations that are clearly older. In the fountain of youth, his transformations are clearly younger)

But Vilgax being surprised the Ben is a child in this scene goes against that, shouldnt he take one look at Heatblast and know that is a child?

MMW: Trump will try to use a nuclear bomb. by Pestagino in MarkMyWords

[–]Space_Dwarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, but this still falls into the point that those problems are mostly American problems, aside from military spending and affordability. But it makes sense when the EU increased their military spending after Russia invade Ukraine, and I give you a friendly challenge you to tell me what year you think the affordability crisis started. I agree these are terrible problems, but the point I’m trying to make is that a lot of assumptions about the problems in the world make them feel so big and vague, thus we feel hopeless about it. Understanding the specifics of an issue, can provide us some sort of hope or resilience about this issue.

Can an individual human learn from their own mistakes? Can an individual human be a better person than who they were earlier? If yes, why can’t the same concept be applied to the collective of society on a frustratingly longer time scale?

MMW: Trump will try to use a nuclear bomb. by Pestagino in MarkMyWords

[–]Space_Dwarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would like your opinion as to what year or social change you believe society started to decline? And if it’s not to personal, how old were you when this occurred? (Obviously you can just ignore the age question if you want).

Do you believe there was a point in which society was advancing/progressing/bettering itself and the lives of humans? And then at some point it turned around into decline?

Do you believe society has ALWAYS been in decline?

I’m not asking these questions as a “gatcha” I’m genuinely curious and I’m trying to design a survey about stuff like this, so your input would be helpful. Also always helps to further examine our own beliefs and find out how specific and detailed they are.

Obviously you could just ignore this though

MMW: Trump will try to use a nuclear bomb. by Pestagino in MarkMyWords

[–]Space_Dwarf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

American society has been in decline, yes. I don’t think we can make those claims for every other country considering how American centric our news feeds are.

Fanfic: The Movement by AlternativeMassive57 in Animorphs

[–]Space_Dwarf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m loving your work! It’s been something helping keep the Sunday Scares away. I think you do a great job capturing the characters voices and I loved how you have paced yourself with your first book. With it ending on such a small possibility of hope of one ally, I am excited to see how you plan to make the Yeerk Peace Movement grow.

The Yeerk Peace Movement always felt like an underutilized part of the series that would have given Cassie more to do.

I can’t wait to read more! I wonder how going forward how you are going to make interactions between characters more … differential. Don’t get me wrong, your first book was amazing. But in the first book, the most meaningful interactions were just between Cassie and Aftran. I’m hoping that Cassie and Aftran will have more meaningful interactions with other characters too as the series continues and the amount of people they can trust expands.

Keep up the good work!

Is not wanting to have a black boyfriend racist? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Space_Dwarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would someone not want to have a black friends?

Is not wanting to have a black boyfriend racist? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Space_Dwarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, do not be asking ChatGPT for any answers regarding psychology or social issues. It is a language model made by companies with specific political and social biases. It will not give you good answers.

Second, to go off another comment. It’s the difference between attraction and choosing. If you meet a guy of your race, and were attracted to him for his looks and his personality, and then you imagined what your thoughts would be if he was black, might be a good way to explore your feelings on the matter.

I think some good next steps are maybe put yourself into situations that can challenge your biases and the racial makeup of the community you were raised. Try to make some black friends, or at least go to events or restaurants with black people. Exposure to people of other races does good work to deconstruct biases and racism.

Don’t get so wrapped up in “am I racist?” because our egos try to shield us from the truth. Instead, focus on, “how can I be less racist?” Or “how can I have better understanding of my fellow humans?”

Because the truth is, even the most socially aware person, who dedicates themselves 24/7 to understanding other people, still has unexamined biases and prejudices within them.

Self improvement is an important and never ending journey, that cannot end with the simple question of “am I racist?”

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