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eschaton posted:The response of the writers to this would be “That isn’t how acid works?” I think the people who write this show are much smarter than anyone.
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It inst worst than how The 100 handled radiation and I was able to forgive that too
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May 4, 2022 17:39
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TBH the killer acid ocean is getting dunked on because people know how acid works. Nobody knows the rules of "dark photons" or "nanomachine fruit-based biotech" so they roll with it easier. They could have said it's some kind of "acid like" alien compound and it would have been fine (I think it's a bit silly but I like the show so whatever).
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May 4, 2022 18:03
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yall must get so pissed when there's acid rain outside and all the buildings and earth itself haven't melted away
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May 4, 2022 18:05
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Khanstant posted:yall must get so pissed when there's acid rain outside and all the buildings and earth itself haven't melted away Anyone who has ever had to adjust the pH on a swimming pool with strong muriatic acid knows that "acid that eats metal and bubbes" is not the same thing as "lower pH rain". Again I like the show, and it's never been particularly concerned about scientific accuracy, but they literally did say "this is an ocean of acid" and then sort of didn't really engage with the totality of that idea, to the point that my wife asked me several times if she was misunderstanding what "an ocean made of acid" meant when they said it. On the other hand "magic brain fruit" and "million-year-old religious bio-androids" are weird ideas that people will accept almost anything about, that's the difference.
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May 4, 2022 18:16
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It's a planet with a god-like creature in it's core. It's littered with nano tech artifacts and ruins that are a million years old and the flora and fauna is made out of humans. Don't worry about the ocean. I'm sure it's made out of a nanotech compound that, in solution, can rapidly change the pH value of the solution depending on factors like pressure or volume of the the solution. Nanotech pumpkin whales poop it into the ocean and keep the concentration constant.
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May 4, 2022 18:22
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You expect me to believe that this lady, just by turning around, turned to salt? I know how salt works, buddy. People don't just turn into it.
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May 4, 2022 18:25
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General Battuta posted:You expect me to believe that this lady, just by turning around, turned to salt? I know how salt works, buddy. People don't just turn into it. I guess you've never been in the internet before.
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May 4, 2022 18:27
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If it really bothers you, pretend it is flesh and metal eating bacteria or whatever. It's consistent with what's on screen. Yeah, they call it "acid" but that's just because it's quicker to say than "mysterious flesh eating life form" every time. Bam. You're done. It's fine on a thematic/mythological level, as it always has been, and now also on a technobabble level, and we don't need to keep having this conversation.
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May 4, 2022 19:02
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me: "holy poo poo, Bob fell in the ocean and melted! it's like acid or something." you: "actually it's more like an aqueous suspension containing malfunctioning nanites of unknown origin, the degraded programming of which-" me: *i walk behind you as you talk and kick you square in the rear end, sending you hurtling into the acid ocean*
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May 4, 2022 19:23
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Maybe the ocean is LSD. That would explain many things.
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May 4, 2022 19:59
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Now lets talk about the science of robot milk
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Unkempt posted:Maybe the ocean is LSD. That would explain many things. My first thought when they introduced it was that it's an obvious reference to the ocean of acid they did before and during writing. The show is clearly inspired by psychedelics
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May 4, 2022 20:36
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A wizard did it
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May 4, 2022 20:41
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There’s a buttload of evidence that people near the mysterious chemical ocean experience only minor skin irritation. The characters have been studying it for months, and have found nothing to the contrary. Claims that the ocean vapours must be secretly dangerous are a product of superstition.
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May 4, 2022 21:40
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All the same, since you can be on the shore with little problem, it must have been a real surprise for the first person to run into the surf
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GABA ghoul posted:It's littered with nano tech artifacts and ruins that are a million years old and the flora and fauna is made out of humans. Wait... do you think all the plants are people?
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May 5, 2022 04:02
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Elias_Maluco posted:It inst worst than how The 100 handled radiation and I was able to forgive that too The 100 owned
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May 5, 2022 04:10
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I'd be more willing to buy their concerns about acid oceans if they weren't constantly standing a few feet away from it all the time and in general being super close to it when there was literally nothing they could do or use it for. Like "hey chase this guy onto the beach, where the acid tide goes. What time is it? Why the gently caress would that matter?"
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May 5, 2022 04:13
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campion go down to the acid water filled with hostile creatures and fetch the drone please
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May 5, 2022 04:18
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SirPablo posted:Wait... do you think all the plants are people? I think every living thing on that planet is either made of humans, androids (the potatoes go radioactive like androids do), or some fusion of the two.
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May 5, 2022 04:20
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RudeCat posted:I think every living thing on that planet is either made of humans, androids (the potatoes go radioactive like androids do), or some fusion of the two. That's wild, I never would have considered that.
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May 5, 2022 04:26
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soylent planet, enriched with roboflavin
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May 5, 2022 05:46
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RudeCat posted:I think every living thing on that planet is either made of humans, androids (the potatoes go radioactive like androids do), or some fusion of the two. i thought the potatoes were radioactive because they grew on the nutritious soil around snake skeletons which were radioactive because the snakes were androids 
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May 5, 2022 06:08
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Whoever’s responsible, would you mind please green lighting season 3. I want to see what happens when upside down space Jesus and right side up milk mommy fight.
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May 5, 2022 07:13
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pentyne posted:I'd be more willing to buy their concerns about acid oceans if they weren't constantly standing a few feet away from it all the time and in general being super close to it when there was literally nothing they could do or use it for. They're Raised by Wolves characters, they're not exactly operating on normal person logic.
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May 6, 2022 18:35
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These are also the characters that didnt think to put a fence around the giant bottomless holes in the ground until a small child fell down one.
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May 6, 2022 23:52
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idk anyone dumb enough to fall into a bigass hole should probably just get it over with before they get someone else hurt
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May 7, 2022 00:03
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Mother and Father immediately set up camp next to the giant hole, they knew what they were doing.
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May 7, 2022 06:40
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I didn't think anyone actually fell down the hole. They think Cassie(?) did but then Ghost Cassie keeps popping up in ways that imply she's really there (like behind characters before they look). I bet she was abducted by harpies which live in the unexplored deciduous zone.
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May 7, 2022 07:49
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She fell down the hole and landed in the big gooey supercomputer in the core that might be Sol and now it can clone her whenever it wants, same with Mouse
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No Pants posted:Mother and Father immediately set up camp next to the giant hole, they knew what they were doing. Wanst that because the hole is warm and they were in the cold side of the planet?
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May 7, 2022 16:02
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The holes is probably where the snake skeletons are and the soil around the skeletons is the only place where nuclear potatoes grow
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May 7, 2022 16:25
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GABA ghoul posted:The holes is probably where the snake skeletons are and the soil around the skeletons is the only place where nuclear potatoes grow I had kinda forgot that the two robots tasked with saving humanity and programmed exclusively for raising humans, slowly killed their children by feeding them radioactive potatoes. What a show.
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May 7, 2022 17:33
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DrThief posted:I had kinda forgot that the two robots tasked with saving humanity and programmed exclusively for raising humans, slowly killed their children by feeding them radioactive potatoes. What a show. Accidents happen!
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May 7, 2022 17:39
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DrThief posted:I had kinda forgot that the two robots tasked with saving humanity and programmed exclusively for raising humans, slowly killed their children by feeding them radioactive potatoes. What a show. and they only discovered this because the shuttle fuel tank, which doesn't actually care if organic matter is radioactive, for some reason has a radioactivity detector
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May 7, 2022 17:45
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DrThief posted:I had kinda forgot that the two robots tasked with saving humanity and programmed exclusively for raising humans, slowly killed their children by feeding them radioactive potatoes. What a show. In their defense, they did analyze them and they were not radioactive at harvest time. They only turned radioactive after some time in storage, which is not something that happens in nature and you would ever expect.
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May 7, 2022 18:23
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DrThief posted:I had kinda forgot that the two robots tasked with saving humanity and programmed exclusively for raising humans, slowly killed their children by feeding them radioactive potatoes. What a show. and also so far they've done more to doom humanity than save it
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May 7, 2022 18:25
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I'm a big fan of the Emotional Deprivation Veil also apparently being a full body condom restriction device
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Humanity would've been turbofucked if she didn't blow up the mithraic ship. that was a good thing. yeah they really goofed on the radioactive potatoes but i'd like to point out how our parents all fed us cancer causing foods and slathered us in whatever cancer causing creams and cancer powder up our buttcracks. i admit, cauterizing her udders and trying to do a big infanticide was a bad look, but considering the trauma of the conception, the rapid changes and growth, not havinog a fuckin clue wtf is gonig on, like, even normal human births cause a lot of postpartum conditions. honestly kind of got to give her a pass there too. shutting down shodan was good too. growing the grandma turned out to be bad but come on, nobody could've known it was a genocidal robot seed
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