Friday, June 19, 2015

TXP-Network Policy Changes

Due to recent events that I care not to mention, new policies are being implemented:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/adqx5a2e0wf5ihi/gaming_network_policy.txt?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hggm852soqzd38/limits.txt?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lt3gxjwqu3mg2fz/social_media_policy.txt?dl=0

These policies will be enforced no later than July 1st 2015. Please study them.

BTW, if you actually want to contact me, pleas e-mail me first. Provide internet username and purpose before initiating further contact. If you do attempt to Skype me without an initiating e-mail, you will be ignored.

Good Day.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Coming soon to the ReadingRoom 101 home page!


Recent Headlines:


Greece is possibly going to default soon.
https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.vox.com/2015/6/8/8747195/greece-crisis-explained&sa=U&ved=0CA4QFjADahUKEwjx7MS4pY_GAhV4SYwKHdn3ANQ&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNGFpcW8xhuBiEwDdeDbehLvTTdxmA

Germany's not happy either.
https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8764467/germany-foreign-policy-russia&sa=U&ved=0CAUQFjAAahUKEwii-sfIpY_GAhXtMowKHcb2AEU&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNH49avfn7jzIO3Dt5GmYDTyFXJmdg

ISIS likes social media (bad).
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/13/islamic-state-winning-the-social-media-war-state-d/

The government's been breached/cracked (again - how do they still have their jobs?).
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/13/white-house-pushes-30-day-cybersecurity-sprint-aft/

More tech-related security headlines.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/feds-didnt-even-discover-hack-themselves/?cat_orig=us
http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/feds-hack-attack-worse-than-admitted/?cat_orig=us

World news.
http://news.sky.com/story/1500959/head-transplant-brain-surgeon-explains-op
http://news.sky.com/story/1501893/europes-comet-probe-philae-has-woken-up


Market headlines.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-may-be-the-smartest-way-to-trade-silver-right-now-2015-06-10

Minimum wage has some of us sitting on the fence.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/06/12/small-business-owners-evenly-split-on-raising-federal-minimum-wage/

BWT, Boeing's in the news!
http://www.wsj.com/articles/airbus-boeing-supplier-urges-caution-on-boosting-single-aisle-jet-production-1434210995

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Transformers: Too Complicated to Call!

The Transformers: G1 continuity has been pretty convoluted by some past events. Here is a snapshot of the original G1 story and concept:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_continuity_family

Unfortunately, if you like to go by the Japanese/manga version of the events that transpired, you got the KissPlayers near the end, leaving a nasty taste in your mouth:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Kiss_Players_%28franchise%29

Then, Hasbro yelled "Reboot Time!". Thus, the Unicron Trilogy:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Trilogy
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Trilogy_cartoon_timeline

But then, Takara and friends said that nothing is that simple. First, this:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Kiss_Players_%28franchise%29
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Robots_in_Disguise_%282001_franchise%29#The_continuity_kerfuffle

Let's smash G1 and Beast Wars together!:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robotmasters_%28franchise%29

Then, that:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Cybertron#Galaxy_Force
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Kiss_Players_%28radio_drama%29#Weekly_Kiss_Players_Position_shows

FYI, Brave Maximus (TF:RID 2001) crash-landed into various areas associated with the Unicron Trilogy in a space/time accident, essentially. Meanwhile:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Super_Robot_Magazine
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Star_Gate

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Star_Gate
(Let's not forget issue #4 - that's the WTF moment)

Which all leads to one thing:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity#Unified_Japanese_continuities
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/6/66/Japaneseflowchart.jpg

Which then leads to this:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity#Continuity_soup
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Personal_canon
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family#Quibbles


Oh BTW:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family#Live-action_film_series_2

Good thing that Transformers: Animated and the New Aligned Continuity is seperate from all of the previous content. That would be a mess all on its own. It all starts after the end of the Unicron Trilogy...

EDIT :: But now, we have a problem. I remember someone saying that the 2007 Live-action film was considered a part of G1 at one point (until something that left a bad aftertaste for years did something good for once).

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity#Unified_Japanese_continuities

If that's true, and TF: Rise of the Dark Spark happened, would Transformers: War for Cybertron, TF: Prime, and TF: Age of Extinction all be connected? By doing TF: Rise of the Dark Spark, Hasbro helped the Japanese link the Aligned Continuity with the Live-action continuity - that includes the 2007 movie as well. Which then connects to G1?

At least Kiss Players did this (still not off the hook): "also made the rather bizarre claim that the 2007 live-action movie also somehow took place in the Japanese Generation 1 continuity in 2007, but this was not reflected by the accompanying flow-chart, and was established to not be the case by the Kiss Players timeline (which noted that the movie-verse Autobots and Decepticons came from another universe)."

But, Aligned continuity is still connected to the Live-Action continuity. Where in the Live-Action continuity did TF: Prime fit in?

Well, that's just Prime.

Nuff said. With even my years of experience and research, this nearly destroys my brain. Any opinions/suggestions?