The thing is you can have a grassy lawn or even a golf course without it being an ecological disaster, you just have to a: be cool about having the occasional non-grass plant in the mix and b: be willing to live in a climate that supports grass without irrigation.
I always thought that golf as a sport should be adapted to the local native landscape. I think this will encourage regional pride when local golfers completely trounce visitors at Swamp Golf, Desert Golf, Forest Golf, etc. Rich tourists will be pressured to travel extensively to experience all forms of golf, instead of staying in their backyard country club golf courses. Internet discourse will probably somehow get worse but I think this is a small price to pay.
We really don't know a lot about these guys, which is a shame. They are, after all, long term slaves of The Makuta whom have been subject to uncountable atrocities in the process. We know next to nothing about their language, their culture, their religious beliefs or understanding of their cosmos.
Still, I think we can come to some conclusions about their overarching timeline sequence.
Let's get the easy one out of the way in the first post.
The Visorak were created by Makuta Chirox. He was, by all accounts, very pleased with this.
So. What in Karzahni is the Zivon?
For those who don't well remember; the Zivon is a massive scorpion Kaiju which has, on multiple occasions, devoured a majority of the Visorak Horde.
It is a Kaiju so powerful, so unstoppable, so irresistible, that even in a setting as saturated with OP super-warriors as Bionicle, in the tens of thousands of years that The Zivon has existed, the only way anyone has come up with to make it stop laying waste to everything in its path is by trapping it in an alternate dimension.
If āThe Zone of Darknessā ever had native life in the past, it doesnāt anymore.
In canon, we are told that the Zivon is the "natural predator" of the Visorak. Now, we learn this long before we learn about the roll of the Makuta in the ecology of the Matoran Universe, and thus the distinctly a-standard way anyone in the setting would consider the concept of a "natural predator."
But suffice to say, by normal definitions the Visorak aren't naturally occurring. So what in the mind of Tren Krom is the Zivon?
Well as many of us will remember, Chirox has a rival.
A more talented, but also genuinely and dangerously unhinged rival.
As I have proposed elsewhere before; creating an enormous, invincible Scorpion Kaiju, which neither he nor anyone else can control, is precisely Makuta Mutran's style.
From this, we may conclude that the Zivon comes second in the timeline.
We know Mutran made the Mountain of Xia, a literal living pet rock he accidentally left on the island that eventually grew to immense size and got a taste for Vortixx
So not only is making a destructive kaiju that has a craving for sapient species something that fits Mutran's purview
āBecause the truth is, tech doesnāt have an image problem. It doesnāt have a message problem. It has an intention problem. Whatās wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasnāt successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. Whatās wrong is that heās trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product thatās designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isnāt that you havenāt told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.ā
Going to have to keep inventing further ways to say "ceasefire" for every time the US and Iran conflict pauses momentarily, but the terms have got to escalate in peacefulness to imply that some progress is being made in negotiations.
This isn't just about you. You can't punish yourself forever. Nobody's watching. Sooner or later, you'll have to relearn how to interact with the rest of the world
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5
(I've been thinking about making this comic for an entire year, and I worked on these pages on and off for three months. I'm glad it's posted!)
So Shun is like, one of my all time Favorite Characters across all Media? So I was always a little confused why some people dislike him. My assumption was always it was just from the Anime Adaptation absolutely BUTCHERING my poor boy (he is a cardboard cutout of himself fr), but some are LN Readers??? And then I realized, itās because heās not a power fantasy. He is in the same category of Shinji Ikari of āteenager reacting pretty realisticā (but even then heās actually pretty grounded) and my god some people (are dumb bitches) canāt stand that. So yeah I think itās mostly because he is the āyou wouldnāt be a cool badass hero in this situation you would be WILDLY out of your depthā. And like lately thereās been a certain wave of people who refuse Protagonists who are actuallyā¦ yknowā¦ CHARACTERS. To Quote Tweet by JenosonTwit; āIt's a low key a new phenom where folks have self inserted themselves over Canon and ACTIVELY refuse to engage with the work at all. They're not engaging the story as an observer, they think THEY'RE the MC, it's an complete absence of imagination.ā
Ok rereading that before posting, sorry that paragraph is so bitter ugh. I try not to be such a bitter person but Iām just??? I LOVE Shun??? Heās such a complex character? Sucks that his best explanation of his character is mostly in volume 15 where he has his āIām an npc in my own life!!! Iām out of my depth!!!ā Breakdown.
No seriously like I get he might not be everyoneās favorite, which yknow totally fine, but the whole perspective switching in KumoDesu is both really well done and critically important to the way the story is told. Like the juxtaposition of what Kumokoās doing vs what Shun is doing is really fun and at times absolutely hilarious? Idk man sometimes I feel like a lot of complaints I see are people completely ignorant to the idea of āNarrative Purposeā and Genre Expectations. KumoDesuās story doesnāt actually work without Shun and I can say that with a lot of confidence based on how wonky the Manga Adaptation feels but I do wanna give both adaptations the pass of āKumoDesuās writing style is literally the hardest type of style to adapt to another mediaā so yknow.
I hope I'm online when it happens. I want to see a sudden flood of crab rave memes right after refreshing my dash, and in the middle of it all, the Castiel news meme. That's how I want to learn of it; not through anything solemn or serious, but via overwhelming silly celebration.
I'm very proud of my countrymen for introducing America to the world of the proper football chant.
None of this cheerleader stuff for soccer, oh no sireee, I mean, no disrespect to cheerleaders who put a LOT of work and effort into their performances, but somehow "Rah-Rah! We're the best" from peppily gymnastic young things can't quite match the sheer power of entire stadiums of grown up fans yelling at the top of their lungs things like....
It's unclear if this one originated with the English of Scottish games (spelling of "old" as "auld" notwithstanding), but either way, well done.
And it's striking home too! :D
Sportsball holds no interest for me, but that doesn't mean I can't respect the participation aspects sometimes.
The rotting jack-o'-lantern's aides and cabinet have apparently been scrambling to keep him from watching any of the world cup games with English speaking crowds, because so many of the chants have been about Epstein and him.
This includes keeping him from presenting the winners trophy at the final game, because can you IMAGINE sixty thousand international fans with a live target for those chants? He might shit himself to death on the spot.
it is of course easier to performatively ban children from social media than to do things like "actually challenge and regulate the abusive tactics tech companies use to extract people's data and money via social media" but if we did the second thing we wouldn't have any excuse to force people to use digital ID :(
i always love the way that mtg strategists and high level players discuss red decks in articles. this quote has been going around the local mtg server:
and the thing is that i really love hot dog decks. this guy is so fucking right
