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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48501: Apr 9th 2017 at 3:39:20 PM

Their super advanced spaceships are their biggest advantage naturally,and yeah it makes sense that they wouldn't want to destroy planets where they would likely get a steady supply of resources,but their lack of firearms does surprise me,might be a censorship thing or conscience decision that for whatever reason Gems don't use ranged weapons unless it's on their ships.

It would be really cool though to see the conflicts the gem empire causes on other worlds but the focus on Earth and Crystal Gems means that's unlikely,it's the sort of thing that appears during a final when they have a longer episode then normal and much bigger budget.

Also,they do have diplomats like Sapphires so that does sort of confirm that they have to do diplomacy talks with someone else out there without having to show it.

edited 9th Apr '17 3:39:41 PM by Ultimatum

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#48502: Apr 9th 2017 at 5:34:39 PM

I mean, they have diplomat-commanders who are literally prescient. They don't need to go after soft targets.

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#48503: Apr 9th 2017 at 5:51:19 PM

Oh my god, I just looked up 'Steven Universe Animorphs' on a whim and I found exactly one one-shot fanfiction, and the concept is "What if Connie was a Controller and Steven found out when they first fused into Stevonnie" and it was so good. I mean, Connie's Yeerk acted a tad out-of-character, but it was still so good and my mind is now stuck on this idea and the potential it has.

edited 9th Apr '17 5:52:02 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#48504: Apr 9th 2017 at 6:15:53 PM

What's Animorphs?

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#48505: Apr 9th 2017 at 6:19:27 PM

[up] A popular children's book series about a group of kids who gain the power to transform into animals by a dying alien, and use them to fight an alien invasion of parasitic slugs who can take control of other people's bodies and use them as their own.

It's actually pretty damn dark, from what I understand.

edited 9th Apr '17 6:19:39 PM by KarkatTheDalek

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#48506: Apr 9th 2017 at 6:35:10 PM

It starts very lighthearted, then slowly and steadily becomes darker and more somber as the war catches up with everyone.

And even so, the Big Bad Visser Three acts like a Saturday morning cartoon villain all the way through, it's just that the series never pretends that being incompetent and childish doesn't mean he's and the great power he has at his disposal aren't horribly dangerous.

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#48507: Apr 9th 2017 at 9:48:57 PM

It's like, he has a horrible temper, which is fun, until he starts beheading his subordinates, which is not Played for Laughs.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48508: Apr 10th 2017 at 5:20:47 AM

Ah man Animorphs discussion! Getting nostalgic in here,I remember the 90s TV show they did,it was great attempt when they had what amounted to a shoe string budget

I wonder if there's any chance of a modern day series ever being done..

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#48509: Apr 10th 2017 at 5:44:02 AM

I have plans for an anime.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48510: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:30:31 AM

Random question which may have come up before but I never saw it,did they ever establish why Steven was the only one who started crying when Blue Diamond was on the Earth?

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Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#48511: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:33:10 AM

[up] I think it was implied to be because of his empathetic abilities.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48512: Apr 10th 2017 at 8:05:40 AM

I guess that comes being from related to Rose Quartz

I imagine if Yellow showed up he might have similar sort of reaction,with anger rather then sadness

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#48513: Apr 10th 2017 at 8:33:48 AM

Well, Yellow did show up and that didn't happen. And I don't think it was because Blue was there because you can feel angry and sad at the same time.

More likely that Yellow suppresses her emotions because that was basically what her song was about.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48514: Apr 10th 2017 at 8:37:52 AM

Yellow was'nt there physically but she appeared by video link so I don't think it counts as her actually being there

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#48515: Apr 10th 2017 at 8:40:24 AM

Yes, but I'm talking about when Yellow was on the space station in the same room as Steven and Greg.

edited 10th Apr '17 8:41:26 AM by xanderiskander

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48516: Apr 10th 2017 at 8:56:29 AM

Oh that,right,

I imagine being on Earth itself would effect Yellow Diamond in the same way that visiting a place where you have had traumatic experiences will cause a flood of bad memories to surface ,you can't keep emotions behind a steely resolve forever,it's bound to come out. The trauma of losing Pink Diamond and the war probably may not make her crying mess like Blue Diamond,but it's bound cause her intense amounts of regret,anger and frustration because she's the one in charge of their armies and it was the one where they lost so much

Maybe even fear?

edit:I'm basing off the fact that the show makes it's villains sympathetic and not just Complete Monsters,so it would surprise me they did things differently here and made her completely unfeeling over something that lasted thousands of years

edited 10th Apr '17 9:44:17 AM by Ultimatum

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48517: Apr 10th 2017 at 12:11:23 PM

@xanderiskander: Steven wasn't sleeping when Yellow Diamond was on the space station.

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#48518: Apr 10th 2017 at 12:17:46 PM

Did he need to be sleeping?

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#48519: Apr 10th 2017 at 12:52:40 PM

No.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48521: Apr 10th 2017 at 1:10:44 PM

Did he need to be sleeping?
Forming the connection seems to require sleep, even if his connection to Blue eventually worked while he was still awake.

edited 10th Apr '17 2:02:06 PM by thatother1dude

xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#48522: Apr 10th 2017 at 1:37:44 PM

I think that's why they were confused. I just assumed that it works when he's asleep and when he's awake. I don't think we know for sure how this works either way.

It makes sense though.

edited 10th Apr '17 1:42:16 PM by xanderiskander

thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48523: Apr 10th 2017 at 2:01:40 PM

[up]Alternately, Greg being kidnapped took him out of the frame of mind to use that power.


I've thought of two related questions about the Diamond's corruption weapon:
  1. Why DIDN'T they use it earlier? You could say Pink's shattering was crossing the Godzilla Threshold, but it's now clear the corruption wave did not diminish Earth's value to Homeworld. They could have evacuated their own forces without a rush, used it, come back to Earth, and easily taken down the corrupted Crystal Gems. Maybe we'll get an answer once we know more about the weapon itself.
  2. (I may have brought this up before.) Only gems currently formed seemed to be corrupted, hence Lapis, Amethyst, and Bismuth were not corrupted. While Homeworld didn't seem to usually take prisoners, the Crystal Gems clearly did, and they'd logically have not been corrupted either. So what happened to them? This one I kind of don't expect to ever be explained.

edited 10th Apr '17 2:03:00 PM by thatother1dude

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#48524: Apr 10th 2017 at 2:46:13 PM

I think I can explain 2, during the course of the war they likely ended up recruiting the gems they captured,hence why the revolution got so big,gems they likely couldn't capture ended up being shattered though

It's unlikely since the Crystal Gems are the good guys but there could be a super top secret Crystal Gem prison where all their prisoners from the war were sent,like a temple for uncorrupted gems

edited 10th Apr '17 2:46:42 PM by Ultimatum

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RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#48525: Apr 10th 2017 at 3:17:11 PM

It's more space efficient and more humane to you know... Bubble them.

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