The reason why there were trees and plants in mad max 1 was because mad max was living in what would later be known as the infamous long lost paradise the 'GREEN PLACE'
My theory is what was later known to be the green place that every mad max warchief is trying to look for was simply what was left of the pastures of victoria state in australia. You can actually see mad max getting progressively drier as the movies progress:
mad max 1: still looks normal but society is clearly falling apart
mad max 2: extensive desertification can be seen but can still see shrubs and tufts of grass here and there
mad max 3: almost no greenery left except in the oasis, and some sad looking shrubs here and there in the end
fury road: no greenery left at all, even the green place is gone and turned into a bog
here is my timeline to piece together what happened:
mad max 1: Max is in his early twenties living in the last green place in victoria state: geelong and ballarat. there is another green place mentioned in the movie, up north near darwin. Much of australia is desertified. Victoria at this stage is 80% desert and 20% green.
mad max 2: Geelong and ballarat becomes desertified as predicted in the first movie, only a small area of ballarat remains green. victoria is at this stage 95% desert and 5% green
mad max 3: the whole of victoria state has become desert, only the green place remains. victoria is at this stage 99% desert and 1% green
fury road: even that 1% is gone.
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How and why you would survive a zombie apocalypse.
It really comes down to basic math. Hollywood, and a lot of video games try to exaggerate, and make it appear to be impossible.
For simplicity, we'll use 8 Billion, as the global population. We'll also assume that 90%, is the approximate loss of life, as of a result of the zombie apocalypse. Using those two values, approximately 7.2 Billion zombies would be walking around after 'ground zero'. That leaves about 800 million survivors. That breaks down to just 9 zombies, for every living survivor.
Which means that you have two choices... Grab a baseball bat, or hide. To help with this decision. Step outside, and look around, as in 'right now, while things are still good'. Whether you are at home, work, or on vacation. Count the number of people you can actually see, (we'll call this the zombie count). Since you know that each car has just one driver, go ahead and count any moving vehicles as one. If you want, you can stand there for a few minutes, to get an average. Now for every 9 zombies you see, assume there is another able-bodied living survivor nearby.
Even if there are 99 zombies, statistically, there are 11 survivors. If the 11 of you can't coordinate enough to dispatch, trap, or distract them, then maybe you don't fit the statistic. Then, you hide and wait things out for a better opportunity to present itself.
Now a lot might depend on the type of zombie. Is it a shambler, like The Walking Dead, or is it a fast, agile, intelligent type, as seen in shows like, 28days, I am Legend, etc. The math still works, but the tactics might change. Either way, it is still 'doable'. Let's not discount those zombies that were 'trapped' in a car, or a building, or in a hole. The ones that happened to get caught behind a chain-link fence, or worse, got stuck ON the chain link fence. Give them a few days, weeks, and months, and weather will probably take care of most of what is left wandering around.
Here's my rant...
I hated The Walking Dead zombies. They had zombies walking around for 10 years after ground zero. They physically wouldn't have made it past 6 months. They had thousands of them wandering the streets of Atlanta, when Rick rode in on his horse... The math didn't work. Even if you pushed it to 95% instead of 90... But maybe we assume that T-Dog, Andrea, Glenn, Merle, and Jackie, would have made it 6-living vs. thousands of zombies.. when the math would have been more like 6 vs 54. But that's Hollywood for you.
Test it yourself. Just go stand outside and count. Make an assumption... If you know there are people inside a house or building, then assume that they get 'trapped' in that same structure. If you see someone a half-mile away, then assume it's going to take them a few minutes to come to you. If all you had to do, was take care of your '9 zombies' and everyone else did the same, then the zombie apocalypse would be over in a matter of hours.
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How to end the curse without tons of deaths that wouldn'tve happened otherwise?
-edit: SORRY, I FORGOT TO SPECIFY THIS IS ABOUT THE SMILE (2022) MOVIE!
Is a question I've heard a lot and I thought of something. (sorry if someone's already thought of this i didnt know) If you have to either
Die with no one else seeing (1 death that wouldntve happened otherwise)
or
Kill someone then kill the person who was traumatised (2 deaths that wouldntve happened anywise)
None of these answer the question. But,
If you gathered 2 people with chronic ilnesses that were going to die in like a day or something, using the latter method of the 2 mentioned above, you would be able to end the curse and the only ones who would die were going to die anyways.
What do y'all think?
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Good Will Hunting Ending
Have not seen this movie in ages and on a rewatch I got to thinking about how/if things worked out between Will and Skylar.
Prior to posting, I read a number of articles and posts, but one thing struck me, there was no mention of Skylar's personal trauma of losing her father as a young girl.
This is critical to my theory of how this relationship could work out. Neither is undamaged and without something hanging overhead.
The chemistry between them was phenominal, and with a sincere conversation to patch things up, I believe that the could help each other heal and grow.
Either way, will is on the right path, and with Chuckie setting him straight, Will knows that regardless of what happens with Skylar, he's not going back to Southie.
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The Third World War a Future History 1985 The T-72s have 115s and thinner armor
From the early 1970s- the 1977 October Revolution Parade when NATO found out otherwise, it was assumed the T-72 used a 115mm gun and the original 1979 M1 Abrams was designed under the assumption the Soviets would introduce new depleted uranium and tungsten 115mm sabot rounds with it. It was also assumed that while the armor would have been thicker than a T-62s, it wouldn't have used composites.
A 1978 British Intelligence report comparing the Leopard 2A0, MBT-80 and XM1 to contemporary and future Soviet vehicles only rates it as 270-290mm vs kinetic attacks and the T-80 as having 340mm.
Although the book was released in 1978, it would have actually been written in the mid 1970s with the year 1977 being the "present day" before jumping into the future of 1985.
All this would have been retconned in the Team Yankee sequel since it came out in 1987.
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Storm Troopers Deliberately Miss (Star Wars)
In every Star Wars movie and series, the storm troopers are bad shots, inspiring endless memes. Many deliberately miss due to being passive aggressive. They resent being treated as slaves, don’t want to kill civilians, and most of all don’t want to do the paperwork of incident reports.
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Big Hero 6 Tadashi always intended for Baymax to be able to fight.
I was re-watching Big Hero 6 and noticed a detail that proves Tadashi had programmed Baymax to be able to fight. After the montage of Baymax learning numerous different fighting styles, breaking boards, and getting gummy bears, Hiro goes to fist bump Baymax. However, does not understand the command fist bump. Hiro had to teach him how to perform the action. But earlier in the movie, Hiro and Baymax are trying to escape the abandoned warehouse after discovering someone is making his micro-bots, Hiro tells Baymax to punch and kick down the door. Baymax proceeds to perform both actions in a hilariously pathetic attempt to break the door. Which means punching and kicking were both programmed into Baymax by Tadashi. Neither of which are approved first aid measures. Also, Tadashi mentions Baymax can lift 1,0000. Which realistically wouldn't be helpful in 99.9% of healthcare scenarios or emergencies. He wouldn't even be able to help firefighters clean up car accidents since cars weigh on average 3 times more than his max strength. But a 1000lb punch force is extremely respectful. Not to mention the expansion slots. We saw Baymax is capable of updating his healthcare database by simply downloading additional healthcare information. So, the need for four programming chips really only make sense if Tadashi's end game was to have Baymax be more than just a healthcare companion.
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Doctor Who Bigeneration, Timeless Child, Time Lords
In Doctor Who we now know that the being who'd become The Doctor is the Timeless Child. We know Tectuen experiment on the Timeless Child and found a way to give Gallifreyans the ability to Regenerate.
She gave Rassilon (the President) and Omega (Inventor of Time Travel) this ability and seemingly every other Time Lord due to her discovery. Gallifreyans have a 12 Regeneration limit, not because it's some abritrary thing, but because Gallifreyans' physiology can only handle that due to them not being The Timeless Child's species.
But then later we get Bigeneration, which isn't real just a Myth on Gallifrey. However due to The Toymaker it becomes real, and while wasn't said on the show RTD has said that every single Doctor Bigenerated as it rippled backwards through time.
But then that also means that every regeneration the Timeless Child had also regenerated.
So heres my Theory: The only "Time Lords" are Tectuan, Omega & Rassilon. Every other one is a Bigeneration of the OG Timeless Child, including The Master, especially The Master. And it's not that Gallifreyans can only Regenerate 12 times, it's that due to Bigeneration's affects on the OG Timeless Child, it's only the OG Timless Child who has infinite regenerations but everyone else is a splinter or an echo.
So it goes The Timeless Child is found, Tectuan experiments and finds a way to give Regerations to herself, Omega & Rassilon but also has a bunch of this species of creature who Bigenerated. Rassilon and Tectuan hide this information and the wipe the OG Timeless Child's memory and it reverts into a baby, who is the raise and grows up and becomes friends with The Master and becomes the First Doctor.
But every other Time Lord is a splinter of the OG Timeless Child, the person we know to go on to be The Doctor.
Just something I've been thinking about, what do you guys think?
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Megas XLR The Coop we've been following is NOTHING like the Coop in the alternate universe
If you've watched the last two episodes of Megas XLR it may feel like Coop is a few years away from turning into the tyrant we see in the alternate universe but after putting some thought into it there are a few key differences that could show that the alternate universe in the last two episodes and the timeline we've been following are very different.
1.) Alt Coop probably wasn't as (how do I put it nicely) Rotund. When the two Coops first meet, Alt Coop jokes about how Coop probably couldn't fit into his mech implying he was never that fat nor had he ever seen a mech pilot that fat.
2.) Jamie and Kiva probably got along better than in the timeline we see them in. Again this could just be another joke but in the alternate universe, it seemed like Kiva had a thing for Jamie when in the timeline we followed the two were constantly at each other's throats. Maybe that would have changed in the timeline the show followed but that's still a bit of a stretch.
3.) The Coop in the timeline the show follows literally never backs down from a fight no matter how hopeless it is. He will literally die rather than retreat. Whereas in the last episode when Alt Coop realizes he's outnumbered, he turns tail and runs. I doubt this is a coincidence since the exact same episode chose to emphasize how Coop would rather die than back down from a fight.
TL;DR the Coop in the last two episodes is a VERY different variant from the one we had been following.
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Peter isn't any of the children’s father in Family Guy
The reason why I came up with this theory is because of the House of Peters episode where all of his donated children look so much like him. Also, Peter is known to do stupid things to irritate Lois which results her in cheating on him.
Meg is Stan Thompson’s daughter.
In one of the episodes from season three, Brian said “Stan Thompson” in response to Meg’s real father. Also, Meg looks nothing like Peter.
Chris is Dr. Hartman’s son.
Chris is most likely to be related to Peter. I do believe that Dr. Hartman is related to Chris. Chris looks more like him than Peter. I also believe that Peter and Dr. Hartman could be second cousins or something because of their chins which makes Chris still related to Peter.
Stewie is the man from Quest for Fur’s son.
In the pornographic video of Lois, there's a man who looks so much like Stewie and even talks like him. There is no way he isn't Stewie’s real dad.
What do you think of this?
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The Marx Brothers Had a Magic Ticket
I've been watching a lot of Marx Brothers movies lately and one thing I've noticed is that they all involve the brothers getting involved in a much more serious plot line. Take Animal Crackers, it's like the studio was making a art heist movie and the brothers just wandered on to the set. My theory is that they had a magic ticket from Last Action Hero. We know that Houdini gave a ticket to Frank the projectionist, but who's to say that that was the only magic ticket there ever was.
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[Lost] The 'mystery box' is how 'the Island' works, including the MiB and the Flash-Sideways
Lost answers most of its mysteries indirectly, as it is the classic 'Mystery Box' show. As such, individual viewers project what they *WANT* into the 'box,' and however they rationalize the events of the ending says more about them than about the show, BUT...
This is also how the island works, with the individual people on the island allowing the Smoke Monster / Main Antagonist to turn into people who symbolize what these characters *WANT*, which is usually forgiveness for some 'sin' they committed before being stranded. I'll get to clarifying how this works and then listing off the copious evidence in a bit. Anyway, this is the missing piece that connects many but not all of the loose threads within the plot of the show.
Here is an example of the formula for an episode of Lost, with this new insight added in.
So within an episode, a character will see someone or something out in the jungle that, for various reasons, can't possibly be out in the jungle. This could be a dead relative, an animal with no place on the island (not the polar bears, surprisingly), or a person who is known to be elsewhere at the present moment (the most famous example being WAAAAALT appearing to Shannon while in captivity).
In most cases, this impossible vision or apparition will not return again or be directly addressed ever again. What will be addressed is much closer to an answer than what it appears to be. This is the flashback sequences in the episode. These illuminate a character's motivations, or their *WANTS*. The Light in the cave, revealed to be 'the Island' at the end of the series, is what Ben Linus calls the 'Magic Box,' and as Ben is usually lying, this important admission is overlooked by most viewers, even by John Locke, the ultimate Lost fan boy. Ben explains that the 'Magic Box' manifests wants or 'the imagination.' This is why, in almost all cases, these impossible animals (people are animals) are straight from character flashbacks, which are the way the show chooses to dramatize what motivates a given character. (The scene where the Smoke Monster is first revealed to Eko shows stills from Eko's past passing through it- rifling through his mind.)
So Jack sees his dad, and his flashback reveals the he feels responsible for his dad's death, and never reconciled before his death. Kate sees the horse that she saw back in Iowa just after killing her stepfather. The horse is her want of forgiveness. A trickier example is Shannon seeing Walt. Shannon is called useless all through out her time on the series, specifically by her brother Boone. After Boone has died, Walt trusts his dog Vincent with Shannon, and this brings her to tears. When Shannon loses Vincent, she expresses guilt for losing the dog, and then sees Walt, a projection of her guilt and feelings of uselessness that are tied up in Boone's recent death. (In 2020, Lindelof said that scary Walt was 'the Monster' meaning the Smoke can be more than dead, which is the only imitating Smokie admits to in show). These visions are 99% of the time hostile, and lure people towards conflict or sudden death.
Now let's tie this back to what the show does actually explain. Ages ago, like with Cain and Abel, Jacob, controller of the Island (I'll explain how soon) killed his brother and created a Smoke Monster (the FX dept. said it's definitively a cloud of electrified iron filings) in the same action, by tossing his sibling into the Light cave that is the Magic Box. The apparatus in the Light Cave, built later to prevent any more Smoke Monsters, is a large scale version of the one Ben Linus used to summon the Monster, which we are told in season 1 is a 'security system' for the island, a 'Monster' seeming to be caught between man, beast, and machine. Jacob disturbed the nexus of the island and it generated a Smoke Monster in self defense. Consider this: there is no scene between Jacob laying his brother's body to rest, and the Monster appearing as that brother to Richard 1000's of years
Why Shiny Pokemon Are A Defense Mechanism
This is the theory that shiny pokemon are a defense mechanism born from a genetic mutation that occur within in all lines of pokemon. The point of this defense mechanism existing for the sole purpose of survival in the wild, from other predator pokemon
(entire list of predator pokemon can be found here:
Link:
https://i.redd.it/zd05v1wkjdr11.jpg?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share )
E.g. :
Like how Pidegot, hunts and eats Caterpie
Ultimately this theory aims to see shiny pokemon as a defense mechanism that pokemon like
(continue reading please, onto the next line after Evidence:)
Evidence:
Corola use (through genetic mutations [which are random]).
This is because corosella's shiny form is light blue
Which is similar to the blue lobster in that, a blue lobster is rare because it is a genetic mutation that occurs within the lobster line, (like shiny pokemon [as this theory asserts])
MAJOR PIECE OF EVIDENCE!!! EVIDENCE:
Coral will also change it's COLOR AS A DEFENSE MECHANISM!!!!! In response stress.
Back to the THEORY:
So what if over generations of pokemon, certain species of pokemon developed different defense mechanisms in response to their respective predator pokemon, (through a combination of generational trauma and genetic mutations), this could explain why pokemon like Garchomp and Genagar change very little, in their shiny forms, because these pokemon are generally referred to as being strong/competitive within both the anime and the games, so perhaps due to them being the apex predators of their environments, their defense mechanism never took on a greater transformation (like charizard did from gen 2 to gen 3 when it turned from purple to black), because there was never an external force (with the exception of generational trauma, which does influence your DNA, but to an extent) in the form of a predator pokemon,
motivating a greater genetic mutation, within the line of both gengar and garchomp.
This would also explain why Haxorus's shiny is dramatically different from it's general counterpart. Because when haxorus loses it's horns, they won't grow back, so perhaps haxorus's shiny is a genetic mutation in response to predators that attack their species when having lost one or both of their horns, with it's shiny color serving as a means of detoruing any predators that it may have, in other (unknown) regions.
Notes:
I once saw a youtube short detailing how Corosla pokedex entry states that, it changes colors to hide from it's predator (the name was mentioned but, I do not remember, though I believe it may be it's galarian counterpart)
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Transformers movies The real reason the Autobots turn into fancy cars
The Transformers film series misses the point of them being inconspicuous “robots in disguise” by having most of the Autobots transform into high-end expensive supercars that the average person would never be able to afford. Sideswipe even turns into a 2009 Corvette Stingray concept, a car that was never commercially available to the public. I’ve crafted a theory explaining why this is;
After the Autobots and Decepticons’ existence was revealed to the world, General Motors had found the holy grail of good PR realizing that the world-saving alien polymorphs just so happened to take the form of their products. GM then, either directly or through high-ranking officials, lobbied the government to have the Autobots transform into their latest models while their heroics are broadcast to the world, compelling millions, maybe even billions to purchase their cars. Other manufacturers like Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz subsequently joined in, even motorcycle companies like Ducati and the firefighting company Rosenbauer.
The biggest evidence for this is in Revenge of the Fallen, where a 2009 Chevy Spark and Chevy Trax (another never released concept car) just happen to be waiting at the N.E.S.T base for Skids and Mudflap to scan, proof they didn’t choose those cars willingly. More evidence is how Bumblebee changes his Camaro mode to the version from the same year each film came out, instead of retaining his 2007 Camaro mode for the whole franchise. In Age of Extinction, a 2014 concept Camaro casually drives by Bumblebee, who then upgrades his 1967 Camaro mode to the 2014 version he just saw. Could this have been subliminal messaging to him by General Motors?
Obviously this doesn’t apply to all of the Autobots, namely Ironhide, Ratchet, and Jazz retain the same vehicle mode for their tenures (and Optimus who only changed his alt-mode out of necessity). Other characters who were never affiliated with N.E.S.T like Crosshairs and Drift, who turn into a Corvette and Bugatti Veyron respectively, simply decided to follow the trend on their own will.
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Hazbin Hotel Theory - Lute and Lilith - Possibility they might be sisters?
So I have a little bit of a theory and it may be already thought of or just a totally out there theory but I just wanted to share it and see other people’s opinions on it - what if Lute and Lilith are sisters? Here are some points I was able to point out with my theory:
1. Lute and Lilith are both from heaven and angels - Yes Lilith is now the queen of hell - but she was an Angel before she married Lucifer
2. Lilith was Adam’s first wife - before she went off and married Lucifer - so who would Adam be able to refer to when his own wife goes off and betrays him? And we all know Adam is not the nicest guy in the world and will do stuff for revenge - so why not call a relative of Lilith to be his right hand woman to gain some jealously from his ex wife
3. SPOILER ALERT we see at the very last episode, Lute has a discussion on a beach in Heaven with Lilith. Why is she there though? How was she welcomed back into heaven after betraying the angels and marrying the king of Hell himself? Doesn’t seem like something that can be very easily forgiven and let back into heaven for. So if that’s the case, how could she even get in to hide? Maybe help by her sister, Lute?
4. The eyes - a lot of people who watch the show point out this theory about that the eyes match to those who are related to each other - yes we have not seen lilith’s eyes yet but why does she have to hide them? Maybe because they match Lute’s and if people saw, they would know they were sisters.
I would really like to see other opinions on what I’m thinking for this show. Again, I know this may be a really out there theory but I just want to see what others think.
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Doctor Who At some point in the near-ish future of the show (but not for at least a couple decades), the Doctor might have a young blonde female companion named Scarlett
That's what seems to be the pattern as both nuWho in 2005 and whatever we're calling this new era that started with the anniversary specials had their first Doctors' first companion be a young blonde woman named after a reddish color (Rose Tyler and Ruby Sunday) so why I figured the potential next companion in that pattern might be named Scarlett (part of why I included the young qualifier is so people wouldn't joke about a certain A-list movie star playing herself just because she's a famous blonde Scarlett) is because scarlet is the only other red-adjacent color I can think of that (albeit with the added t most of the time) can work as a female first name
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Encanto Fan Theory (Bruno)
I have a theory about Bruno Madrigal. So in the movie, we’re briefly and vaguely intrintroduced to 2 different aspects of Bruno named Hernando and Jorge. So my theory is that Bruno himself actually has Dissociative Identity Disorder (Also known as DID) and that Hernando and Jorge are two of his alters. But what do y’all think? Does my theory seem plausible at all? I’ve seen people say that it was Bruno acting, also known as essentially roleplaying in a way. But I personally think that if my theory turned out to be true, it would explain a lot.
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New potential link between "Trap" and the Unbreakable Trilogy
I rewatched the trailer pretty recently, considering whether I should see it or not, and I think I have found something no one else has really pointed out when talking about potential connections between the upcoming movie and the Unbreakable Trilogy. In the section of the trailer where Josh Hartnett's character talks to Jamie to get information, he holds his hand while asking him questions, as well a repeating his name. I don't know if anyone else felt this way, but it felt a lot like he's potentially mind controlling him or compelling him to say all these things, particularly because of how it is shot and how the character of Jamie is acting in those moments.
My theory is that Josh Hartnett's character, and potentially his daughter, have abilities and The Butcher has been kidnapped because he is a remnant of the old Clover Organisation who hunted down superhumans in the Unbreakable Trilogy. Josh Hartnett's character would have kidnapped and tortured The Butcher so he leaves them alone (or for revenge).
We already kind of know it will be connected to at least one of his other movies because in the trailer it says "in the world of M Night Shyamalan". So I could see this happening.
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Ocean’s Thirteen - Post-Heist
Danny’s crew gets the job done and restores Reuben as we see at the end of the film. Danny takes Benedict’s share of the cash and donates it to the kids orphanage due to the Tuleure move Terry pulled on them.
A month later, Willy Bank is enraged that everyone in his network he would send after Danny has traitored him and flipped to Danny’s side. Bank ends up bankrupt personally and the board of the casino corporation votes him out of his position. He ends up being found dead in his mansion in Hawaii. Self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
Terry Benedict goes after Danny and his crew for reneging on their deal about his share of the proceeds. Once again, Danny knows all the men Terry has sent after him, and he and Rusty pay them off. Danny decides it’s become too hairy for him to go back to normal life and decides Tess is better off if he’s “dead”.
He fakes his death through all his connections in the FBI (through Linus’ parents) and disappears. Rusty doesn’t fake his death but does disappear for a while. The rest of the crew believe Danny is indeed dead and split up for good, pulling off small heist jobs here and there with local crews but mostly going legit like they did after O-11.
Benedict, satisfied he has his revenge, settles back into the gaming business. His casinos take a bit of a hard hit during COVID, but he manages to keep ownership of the Bellagio, his favorite casino of the three he formerly owned, and parts ways with the other two, to keep himself afloat until things recover.
A few years later, we have the events of O-8.
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John Hacket's WW3 1985 The T-72s use 115s
From the early 1970s- the 1977 October Revolution Parade when NATO found out otherwise, it was assumed the T-72 used a 115mm gun and the original M1 Abrams was designed under the assumption the Soviets would introduce a new depleted uranium and tungsten 115mm sabot rounds.
Although the book was released in 1978, it would have actually been written in the mid 1970s with the year 1977 being the "present day" before jumping into the future of 1985.
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and all its associated media are set in a post apocalyptic world like Planet of the Apes where certain animals have becoming sentient and others have not or are subservient to the intelligent animals
In Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, there are a number of animals like Donald, Mickey, Goofy, Daisy, and others who represent the intelligent animals who somehow gained sentience, but all other animals remain of low intelligence and are seen inhabiting the world in the wild. Examples are Pluto, the birds, the turkey they eat at thanksgiving in the Mickey Mouse Christmas Carol, cows and horses and chickens on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, etc. The characters which are dogs, mice, cows, and ducks all interact with the dumber animals on a regular basis, hunt them, eat them, and own them as pets.
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limitless the secret to the NZT drug is to take a very small small dose.
the drugs potency seems to have a direct correlation to the amount you take and how you take it.
in the movie, Eddie finds the NZT drug and takes one every day. it works and he gets smarter, accomplished more stuff. eventually he gets greedy and to increase the effects of the drug, he takes 3 pills a day and it actually works. due to nasty side effects, he decides to lower his dosage to one a day, eat 3 meals a day and no alcohol.
some more evidence is he gives some to a russian mob boss he borrowed money from. we learn he starts injecting the pill and the potency of the drug goes up and it lasts longer.
last piece of evidence is it takes very little for the pill to give you a boost. the russian mob boss attacks him for not paying his debts, eddies pills are taken from him and he's suffering withdrawal effects from it. he kills the russian mob boss and he drinks his blood leaking onto the floor and that little amount is all it took to get his boost and the withdrawal to go away.
if you broke the pill into 10 small pieces and took one of them a day or made a formula where the amount is siginificantly reduced, you'd get a boost with much less nasty effects because the drug is so potent, it takes very little to get a boost.
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Inglorious Basterds Bar Scene (I know it's been done before)
The Basterds plan was supposed to go as planned. It literally was ruined by circumstance.
Bismarck was not a double agent. No.
Haelstrom was not there on purpose. No.
The drunk party came to them at the most opportune moment.
When drunk ass soldier man showed up bothering them, hicox blew his cover at the moment in the conversation when you hear the music stop mid sentence. At that point, the only sounds were hicox yelling at the man in full screaming volume in silence with haelstrom no longer reading his book with his record ended. Then (as a fanatical gestapo major) could listen clearly to the commotion going on outside, and deduce clearly (again as a fanatical Gestapo German) listen to the accent of hicox followed by Stiglitz yelling at the rest of the bar and be like, "that is not a German accent....."
He then came into the fold investigating WTF was going on. It was apparent when he pointed out both German "officers" accents saying, "I wasn't talking to you lieutenant Munich or you lieutenant Frankfurt. I was talking captain I don't know what."
Immediately, it was apparent he knew just by how they talked where they were from. He had an immediate ear for Germans, where they were from, and how they talked.
Lieutenant hicox was done from the beginning when major haelstrom's record ended and he heard him. It was from the beginning because he was a fanatical Nazi, and knew every bit of German dialect, which is what got him (and his ruthlessness) to be a MAJOR in the GESTAPO in France.
Let's not forget that everyone in the German army knows Sergeant STIEGLITZ. Major Haelstrom, a major in the GESTAPO was sitting next to the most wanted man in the wermacht army. That's why he hits him so aggressively.
The Englishman and the most known traitor to Germany, known to be in the Basterds arsenal, gave it away by happenstance and they SHOULD'VE LEFT IMMEDIATELY when they saw all the Germans.
That's my understanding and I'm standing by it.
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SpongeBob is a sociopath…
The symptoms and signs of a sociopath is: Jiggering and Fidgeting, always very fast like on a motor, impulsiveness, harming others through dishonest actions (even if he has a little bit of empathy through or afterwards). In most episodes he’s usually jiggering and fidgeting even when he’s not feeling hyper or scared. He’s very fast at most things, when he made krabby patties he’s usually faster than usual, and for some reasons he’s always on the move one moment he’s in one place and another he’s in another. He’s very impulsive and fast about his decisions without even giving a second to think. In the first episode when he was ordered to get an impossible existing spatula. And now the harming others through dishonest actions, he kidnaps someone with Mr. Krabs (not really but it seemed like it), he smiles when Patrick was getting beaten up, confirmed he likes to harass squidward, a lot, pranked the life guard, letted a customer think he poisoned him. Any other things that could proof this theory been a while since I watched SpongeBob.
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Back to the Future 2 How did Biff getting the almanac and becoming rich lead to Hill Valley becoming a run down wasteland?
In BTTF 2 Biff gets the almanac in 1955 and when Marty goes back to 1985, Hill Valley has become a lawless hell hole. Apart from “butterfly effect”, what actions caused by Biff becoming rich would lead to this?
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later. There is no scene of the Man in Black acclimating to being a Smoke Monster. Also, deactivating the island renders the Monster defenseless, meaning its power is of the Island, and not entirely independent or in opposition. Smoke Locke is shocked by this, showing that it truly believed itself to be a human, like Locke thought he could go on a walkabout in a wheelchair (the same episode that reveals this about Locke also hides the Smoke Monster sound in Locke's first flashback, implying already the connection between Smokie and the past.)
Another key point is Jacob describing the island as a cork containing a bottle of volatile evil, which aligns more with the Freudian model of the repressed subconscious and the id than anything else presented in the show. Not to mention the Dharma Swan Hatch acting as a cork that contains the very same energy/Light which produced the Smoke Monster. Jacob doesn't believe in science or modernity, so his lore dump is severely flawed.
Jacob is projecting a person he did wrong into the Smoke the same as the others are, except with the Man in Black, so much more time has passed. Over the course of season 6, the Monster begins to lose itself in the identity of John Locke, as it already did with the Man in Black during the ancient era of the story.
As a large, obvious mystery box is being carried along in season 5, Frank says "I wish you never showed me what was in that damn box," because once you open the mystery box, the answer you go with can no longer be changed. The show follows this perfectly. This new mystery box is dumped open, and Locke's body is revealed. The people of the Island are made consciously aware of the deception by İlana, and now the Monster can't change, as it is the personification of the Mystery Box, which is now opened. It's then forever locked in place as the person it was imitating when discovered.
Extending from this, Jacob's unaddressed feelings from his youth, as shown just before the end of the series, create the 'Rules' of the Island that seemingly never get explained. He chooses Candidates that are protected from dying by twists of fate (while other minor characters die horribly) because his mother taught him to see some people as inherently more worthy than others. He allows these same worthy people the power to kill each other because he wants them to have the free will his overbearing, manipulative mother did not afford him. Jacob's birth mother was killed just after delivering her children, which results in the Island/Magic Box terminating pregnancies on the Island. The philosophical disagreement that Jacob and his late brother had about human nature is played out by the Island again and again, with Jacob unable to stop it. He brings people to the Island without trying. The 'game' recycles perpetually.
The subconscious is the answer to the mysteries of the series, and remains in the subconscious of the series itself.
Consider the obvious montage of a box being delivered in the opening of the final episode. Here is the missing piece of the strange purgatory flash-sideways storyline.
In the early seasons, you have events in the past that are off-Island, being filtered through the magic box, and manifesting in the present on-Island. In the final season, this is the same, except the on-Island story is in the past, filtering into the flash-sideways magic box afterlife, showing a perfect vision of life off-Island. But this perfect life isn't complete without the connections these people made while stranded together, and so the illusion collapses. Like the Smoke Monster is inevitably found out, the illusory afterlife can't hold forever.
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Lost The 'mystery box' is how 'the Island' works, including the MiB and the Flash-Sideways
Lost answers most of its mysteries indirectly, as it is the classic 'Mystery Box' show. As such, individual viewers project what they WANT into the 'box,' and however they rationalize the events of the ending says more about them than about the show, BUT...
This is also how the island works, with the individual people on the island allowing the Smoke Monster / Main Antagonist to turn into people who symbolize what these characters WANT, which is usually forgiveness for some 'sin' they committed before being stranded. I'll get to clarifying how this works and then listing off the copious evidence in a bit. Anyway, this is the missing piece that connects many but not all of the loose threads within the plot of the show.
Here is an example of the formula for an episode of Lost, with this new insight added in.
So within an episode, a character will see someone or something out in the jungle that, for various reasons, can't possibly be out in the jungle. This could be a dead relative, an animal with no place on the island (not the polar bears, surprisingly), or a person who is known to be elsewhere at the present moment (the most famous example being WAAAAALT appearing to Shannon while in captivity).
In most cases, this impossible vision or apparition will not return again or be directly addressed ever again. What will be addressed is much closer to an answer than what it appears to be. This is the flashback sequences in the episode. These illuminate a character's motivations, or their WANTS. The Light in the cave, revealed to be 'the Island' at the end of the series, is what Ben Linus calls the 'Magic Box,' and as Ben is usually lying, this important admission is overlooked by most viewers, even by John Locke, the ultimate Lost fan boy. Ben explains that the 'Magic Box' manifests wants or 'the imagination.' This is why, in almost all cases, these impossible animals (people are animals) are straight from character flashbacks, which are the way the show chooses to dramatize what motivates a given character. (The scene where the Smoke Monster is first revealed to Eko shows stills from Eko's past passing through it- rifling through his mind.)
So Jack sees his dad, and his flashback reveals the he feels responsible for his dad's death, and never reconciled before his death. Kate sees the horse that she saw back in Iowa just after killing her stepfather. The horse is her want of forgiveness. A trickier example is Shannon seeing Walt. Shannon is called useless all through out her time on the series, specifically by her brother Boone. After Boone has died, Walt trusts his dog Vincent with Shannon, and this brings her to tears. When Shannon loses Vincent, she expresses guilt for losing the dog, and then sees Walt, a projection of her guilt and feelings of uselessness that are tied up in Boone's recent death. (In 2020, Lindelof said that scary Walt was 'the Monster' meaning the Smoke can be more than dead, which is the only imitating Smokie admits to in show). These visions are 99% of the time hostile, and lure people towards conflict or sudden death.
Now let's tie this back to what the show does actually explain. Ages ago, like with Cain and Abel, Jacob, controller of the Island (I'll explain how soon) killed his brother and created a Smoke Monster (the FX dept. said it's definitively a cloud of electrified iron filings) in the same action, by tossing his sibling into the Light cave that is the Magic Box. The apparatus in the Light Cave, built later to prevent any more Smoke Monsters, is a large scale version of the one Ben Linus used to summon the Monster, which we are told in season 1 is a 'security system' for the island, a 'Monster' seeming to be caught between man, beast, and machine. Jacob disturbed the nexus of the island and it generated a Smoke Monster in self defense. Consider this: there is no scene between Jacob laying his brother's body to rest, and the Monster appearing as that brother to Richard 1000's of years
The Guilty (2021) is a sequel to End of Watch (2012) (SPOILERS FOR BOTH - MORE SO EoW)
I've seen plenty of theories about Prisoners being the sequel to EoW and also Jarhead being a prequel and I do like those theories (ignoring some of the bigger holes between Jarhead) but I really like my The Guilty theory. It's never really sat right with me how there's just a cutoff at the end of EoW, it's complete and utter tragedy and no resolution except loss; while that is reality sometimes, I think there needs to be something to be the closure for end of watch.
End of Watch is the story of two friends, Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Pena), who are both partners within the LAPDs 13th Division out of Newton. They work in what many would call the ghetto or hood of Los Angeles. While I'll leave the majority of the film out so you still have some reason to watch it, the movie ends with the death of Mike 'Z' Zavala. The movies final two scenes are the memorial of Officer Zavala and a incredibly funny (imo) scene where Mike describes the first time he was over at his now wife's home.
The Guilty follows the story of Detective Joe Baylor of the LAPD, presumably in Narcotics. He's been assigned to 911 Duty after being involved in an unclarified incident that put him under major investigation by the Departments and DAs Office, I assume this incident involved a questionable death or mistreatment of a suspect. Baylor has an ex-wife (or separated wife) and a young daughter. I do also highly suggest watching this movie on your own as I personally found it very interesting.
Now onto my attempt to tie the movies together. First, the relatively obvious; -Their names. Taylor and Baylor are almost identical aside from one letter, which I personally think could be an attempt by Gyllenhaal (Who was a writer on the film) to tie the characters together by combing Brian and Taylor into one name and naming the character a generic name like Joe. Probably not the best evidence, but it is an interesting note.
-Baylor is a Detective, and it was stated that Brian wanted to be. This is obviously a very wish washy evidence piece, but I do think it's interesting as a note.
-Brian and Janet's (Brian's Wife) relations post EoW. Towards the end of the movie, Janet gets pregnant. Brian is hoping to have a daughter. Hence from a story link, Baylor has a daughter. Now as for why they would be separate or divorced; Mike was one of the closest people to Brian in his life, he was like a twin brother to him. Perhaps when Mike died, Brian went down a horrible path. He became distant from his family, and perhaps even went severely down the wrong path in his career as a police officer.
-Baylor's PTSD. While it is possible that this is from the incident prior to the movie, I think it makes more sense to be from Mike's death. I just don't feel like the character we see in The Guilty would be someone to gain mass amounts of trauma from a wrongful death incident. Brian, maybe; but Baylor seems to be a different person morally from Brian, but not so far off that it would be impossible for Brian to slip that far out after a massive trauma dump from something like Mike's death.
I will say; if the death of his partner didn't have a complete rewire level impact on Brian, I do believe that Prisoners makes more character sense for Brian. Detective Loki seems to still be a cop fighting for the greater good overall, and obviously with how The Guilty is set up, we never see any actual police interaction between Baylor and people of LA, and therefore I can't be certain about how far he's turned from his past self aside from the one known incident between him and the public; which was (presumed) to be a major incident like an on-duty homicide.
If you have any critiques or ideas about this theory, I'd love to hear them. I've always wanted to share this idea but never really got around to it. apologies for all the spacing, but I hope you enjoyed reading it.
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Argos and Mr. Plant Theory.
Smol Theory:
I think the reason all that supernatural stuff is happening on earth (The Angels, the Imaginary Friends, The Monsters) is that ever since humans entered the void, it started slowly integrating earth into itself, and soon Earth will become no more than another extremely large void. In the meantime, as karma for selling void ihabitants, the Void it's making the stolen creatures violent, so they kill those unethical enough (or just ignorant enough) to buy (except the little monsters). That's my smol theory, questions will be answered in the comments.
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Hell has no more people to torture. He will use GOD's light and his FIST to commit a murder-SUICIDE.
P-3 will start with a Flesh Container fight that contains nothing, and you have to fight a few arenas kinda like P-2 before you fight the boss, who is probably Prometheus Prime.
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