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n0brainjustvibes · 8 months

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IMPORTANT BUGWORLD NEWS !!

radiation resistant moths :3

(Spodoptera frugiperda/fall armyworm and Helicoverpa armigera/cotton bollworm).

unfortunately for the radiation goblins, these little guys are pests who eat crops. so we've got some neat competition going if the radiation-goblins decide to take up agriculture. i really want to look up chernobyl and such to see what actually settled there but might be a starting point for insect evolution in the radiation-blasted regions

on other wilder bugworld news i think it would be neat if we got a hermit-crab-like creature who basically parasitises the machine army. exploits some weakness to get inside the machines and uses them as a shell

(bugworld is from this post by @skitter-queen and I dumped my nilbog goblin spec evo thoughts here!! please look at my goblins they eat radiation and have ssooooo many genes :] their lore is updated since the first post)

#i also want to start thinking about parts of bugworld other than. the radiation #but radiation... is cool...#bugworld #worm #wormblr #machine army #machine army is actually probably fucking up the radiation plains too... maybe my pacifist radiation goblins are unrealistic

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rolex-kaard · 6 months

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not sure what this one means

#ultrakill #v2 #v1 #kaart tag #i was never book smart im blood smart .. makes me more repairable. call me mr one machine army i got hella kills.#shawty +parried and her orbs too told her +disrespect #i don't know man #terminal

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artist-rat · 4 months

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This is a gift, it comes with a price Who is the lamb and who is the knife?

#tes #elder scrolls #skyrim #oc: karla @artharakka #song in desc. florence & the machine's rabbit heart #love this kitty #my sister's normal and stable and innocent little girl who would never summon a corpse army #oh and also #blood

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vladdyissues · 2 months

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Some silly sketches tonight

DANIEL NO DON'T TOUCH THAT BUTTO—

#danny phantom #vlad masters #danny fenton #hjbenderart #sketches #dp fanart #practicing some poses #idk what the button does #starts a countdown on a doomsday machine?#releases an army of trained badgers?#lifts the curtain on vlad's intimate toy collection?

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vinsmoked17 · 8 months

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Heya! I'm posting my favorite bands here, so if you like them too, interact! Say hi maybe! And hope you all are having a great day!

☆Bad Omens

☆Motionless In White

☆Bring Me The Horizon

☆Black Veil Brides

☆Pierce The Veil

☆Machine Head

☆Avenged Sevenfold

☆Slipknot

☆Shadows Fall

☆Lovejoy

☆System Of A Down

☆My Chemical Romance

☆Fall Out Boy

☆Sleeping With Sirens

☆TX2

☆Set It Off

☆CORPSE

☆Ricky Montgomery

☆Arctic Monkeys

☆Nico Collins

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high-voltage-rat · 2 months

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Actually I'm still thinking about it. Another interesting way in which RvB is anti-war is the way that the Director fills the role of a villain and antagonist (especially in the Recollections trilogy, where he's a faceless villain we never see but is responsible for everything that happens).

In his memos to the Chairman, the Director emphasizes his sense of duty and obligation to the military- he becomes irate for the first time when he feels that it's being implied that he was derelict in his duty... or that the work he did out of that duty is being criticized for being against the military's interests. He also talks about Allison's death in a way I find... interesting.

"You see; I never had the chance to serve in battle. Nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War. Someone extremely dear to me was lost very early in my life. My mind has always plagued me with the question: If the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? [...] But, given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself... Had I only the chance."

The idea of sacrifice is central to the way he talks about his wife's loss, to the way he talks about the war in general. He talks of sacrifice with a sense of veneration- that it's something he aspires to do, that he longs for. There's a few ways we can interpret "I would have made those sacrifices myself"...

-That in Allison's place, he thinks he would have laid down his life too.

-That if given the chance, he would have given his life to save hers.

But most interestingly...

-That he would have sacrificed Allison's life for the continued survival of humanity, if that was what duty called for.

...And personally, I think all 3 are true.

In most war media, the Director's perspective on sacrifice is very common. Sacrifice is glorious and heroic- to die in battle is an honour- and it's the only way to ensure the group you serve survives. This is a tool of propaganda- nobody wants to go to war just for the sake of it, you have to give them a reason that the risk of dying or being permanently disabled isn't just acceptable, but desirable. Beyond that, most people don't want to do things they think are immoral- you have to convince them it's important, a necessary lesser evil. You teach them to sacrifice their morals, too.

The way they train soldiers to follow orders and to kill, is to convince them that they, and the people around them, and the people they care about, will all die if they don't. It's drilled into your head from day one. It's the way they ensure their commanding officers won't shy away from sending their men off to die. The message is constant- sacrifice is your duty, and duty ensures your people's survival.

In the Director's eyes, the damage Project Freelancer caused was his sacrifice. He never got the opportunity to sacrifice himself during the war- so he sacrificed others, as military brass do. The Freelancers- including his daughter. The countless sim troopers. Any people he considered "collateral damage" on missions. And when the opportunity to do so presented itself, he sacrificed a copy of himself- Alpha- and he sacrificed a copy of Allison- Tex.

The very thing that derailed his life- the loss of his wife- he made it happen again. He put her copy in dangerous situations, let her exist in the position of constant repeated failure, created the circumstances that would eventually lead to her death. He put their daughter in deadly situations that nearly killed her repeatedly, provided her with impossible expectations leading to self-destructive behaviours in the name of duty, implanted her with two AI knowing they could cause her permanent harm. He was confident he "would have made those sacrifices himself" because he did.

The Director is the embodiment of the military war machine. As an antagonist, he is a warning against buying into the glorification of sacrifice. He's a condemnation of the idea that one should be willing to do anything to win a war- that duty to the military is the thing that ensures survival... All the messages that are pushed to ensure recruitment and obedience of soldiers.

He's a reminder that swallowing the propaganda leads to you doing terrible things... and in the end, you're a broken man left mourning the losses that you suffered even as you repeated them, convinced that it was all necessary.

#late nights with ali #ali watches rvb #not video games #rvb #red vs blue #leonard church #the director #director rvb #idk why I'm so fixated on thinking about the anti-war interpretation of rvb right now but I'm apparently going ham #it's just so fucking. wild to me. listening to the director's messages in S6 always has me thinking 'oh man this guy ate the propaganda up'#the OPPORTUNITY to sacrifice yourself??? homedog you sound like the kid in high school who brags he's joining the army as soon as he's 18 #to be clear: a lot of my thoughts on this stem from the fact that I come from a military family. I spend a lot of time with people who...#...bought in to the military propaganda and indoctrination. I see an amplified version of their perspectives reflected in the director.#to the military man sacrifice is the highest calling. sacrifice of your life. sacrifice of your morals. sacrifice of your wellbeing.#the things the director did were all in line with that fucked-up form of sacrifice.#and that they're portrayed for the evil they are is an important protest against the war machine's messaging.

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dolletecoquett · 26 days

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arcadebroke · 4 months

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whositmcwhatsit · 8 months

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Imagine walking down a street minding your own business and suddenly Elvis Presley is leaning out of an upstairs window.

#elvis presley #army elvis #not my era #but i can still appreciate #and plot ladder hijinks once the time machine is operational

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we-will-swallow-your-soul · 1 month

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Anyone here ever get to play one of these?

#kiss #pinball machine #kiss army #paul stanley #peter criss #ace frehley #gene simmons

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myvinylplaylist · 4 months

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Rock N’ Roll Pinball Machines

Silverball Retro Arcade

#my vinyl playlist #silverball retro arcade #kiss band #kiss army #elton john #captain fantastic #the who #pinball wizard #guns n’ roses #doctor who #gottlieb pinball #bally pinball #jersey jack pinball #pinball machine #pinball #vintage pinball #tommy the who

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japo-orbo · 2 months

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Oh no... Where the hell have our war machines gone? part 1 of a very long project which involves at least 12 war machines ready in a month. The lens of the binoculars also needs to be painted but I ran out of blue😅🤣

#games workshop #gamesworkshop #warhammer #gw #miniatures #games #citadel miniatures #army #dwarves #dwarf #war machine

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deeloveskiss · 4 months

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fuck yeah detroit rock city

#eddie furlong ate this role up idec #i need a time machine to take me to the 70s #kissblr #kiss army #kiss band #kiss #detroit rock city #posting

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carbone14 · 3 months

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Soldat de la 32e Division d'infanterie américaine avec une mitrailleuse Lewis Type 92 prise aux japonais – Bataille de Buna–Gona-Sanananda – Campagne de Nouvelle-Guinée – Buna – Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée – Novembre-décembre 1942

Photographe : George Strock

Colorisation par Doug

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the-patchwork-girl-of-oz · 6 months

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Wow, I can’t believe kids born in the early 1900s and 1890s are in their 40s now!

#return to Oz #Ozma of oz #Oz books #TikTok the machine man #royal army of oz

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basementpotato · 5 months

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hello time travelers.... i have been watching dnp on & off since 2015 when I was 12, and i just turned 21! i got the books for christmas in 2016 and i remember hearing someone on campus announce that they had gotten tickets to wad to a group of drunk college kids the day they went on sale. i was in the phandom on google+ back in the day and on tumblr since 2016ish and even though i took a break from the phandom to get really into kpop for about 4 years i never stopped watching new content. since they're back so am i!

#hiiiii phannies #jennifer says things #time machine meetup #dan and phil #im also like way more queer now than when i started watching them at 12. part of the huge lesbian phannie army

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