Internet Downage.
Our internets was teh down between 9:15 and 1:00 today. The problem was this:
The problem was not our link to KC, but rather KC's link to Sprint. This made me think about the internet and how there is no true incorporeal form of teh Internets, but rather "teh internets" is a series of connections. The website upon which I work exists on one server, this blog exists on another, and flickr exists on yet another server. Yet when those servers are connected they seemingly form "Teh Internets". Kind of like how Voltron doesn't exist, so much as there is a combination of cats. The same is not true for Captain Planet, though. Captain Planet IS a being unto himself. He's summoned by the power of those rings, not formed by the power of the rings.
While the internet was down I made some new Lol Raeks. Morning well spent.
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some websaets are on clusters of serves.
No they aren't. Shut up.
NO YOU!
Actually, I would argue that Captain Planet doesn't exist apart from the power of the rings, and he is not merely summoned, but called into existance by their cooperation.
"By all your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!"
Of course, if he ever says anything about his life apart from the Planeteers, then maybe he is his own entity, but that may just be a trick, or maybe he just THINKS he's doing other things in order to justify the gaps in his consciousness.
But he also says, "The Power is Yours." Which makes me think that there is a differentiation between himself and the Planeteers. If he has his own power then the ring power would not be that power, as "the power is yours". I take that to mean that there is the power in the rings (summoning power) and captain planet's own inherent power.
Take the episode where he gets sprayed with toxic gunk and has to leave to go recharge his power. When he leaves the summoning power of the rings return to the rings and they continue to function. If Captain Planet was naught but the power of those rings combined then in what sense would he need to leave to recharc his power?
I contend tha the would not need to leave.
Motherfucker, don't EVER disrespect Voltron. Dude totally exists as a seperate entity. If He did not, then how did we reverse engineer the infinitely sub-par Vehicle Voltron from him? Lions don't make Cars. They goddamn well don't make Hellicopters. They do two things. They form Voltron and they fight King Zarkon of Planet Doom. We didn't take Lionbits and make Vehicle Voltron.
His Defendership protects your ass, and until you up and leave "The Universe", you best well show some deference. I'd hate to see you eat Blazing Sword.
boulder good.
I'm not belittling him. I'm just saying he doesn't exist. He's just a combination of all of the lions.
The main part for me is that it's a combination of those vehicles piloted by the individual people. If there were some "voltron" force apart from those people? Then maybe i'd say that voltron existed.
The Voltron Force totally exists! They have the name and everything! You think those lions could form Voltron without the keys?!
Those Mice TOTALLY protect and serve the Voltron Force.
Jay, it's been great knowing you, but from this moment on, we must pass as enemies.
If Voltron was just those lions, then you know DAMNED well, they'd never get crap done. They'd be all fightin' a robeast, and Pidge would launch the Green Lion Head/Fist off into space, becuase he realized suddenly that he's sitting RIGHT BESIDE the princess.
Meanwhile Sven would be fighting everyone else becuase they were bitching about Ikea.
Voltron? Totally rises above that.
goddamnit.
There is talk of a Voltron franchise of movies.
Live Action-ish movies.
if done right, I will exult.
Such a series cannot actually be done right.
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