<![CDATA[Eagle Time - All Forums]]> https://eagle-time.org/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:42:53 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Dry, Cracked, Earth]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7166 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:23:11 +0000 Arcanuse]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7166 My, its quite dusty in here isn't it?
Don't be rude.
"It's been like this quite a while, hasn't it."
That it has, that it has.

...We should do something, shouldn't we?
Perhaps, perhaps not.
We could leave it be. Let it go its way.
"But something does need doing."

"And that something is?"
To strike the barren earth.
"To crack the ground, and plant a seed."
To water the earth and, if needed, tend the bud.

...

We've known this for a long time. Why haven't we?
A fair question. Distance. Exhaustion. Nerves.
A general disdain for burdens, real or imagined.
"We've made our peace. Haven't we?"

Shush. All of you. Let's start again, from the beginning.

There is, let me think... A pond, yes. Crisp, clear waters. Vibrant, full of life.

Singular.
A point of reference.
Full of potential.
"Hardly a story though. Barely counts as raw material."

Give it time. We have nothing else.

...It could use a hook.
But a simple one. We're out of practice.
How about: Is the pond real, or a metaphor?
"Bit vague. Should we ask for more?"

It will do.

You've heard the chorus. Will the pond be literal, or metaphor? We will await the answers, even one.]]> My, its quite dusty in here isn't it?
Don't be rude.
"It's been like this quite a while, hasn't it."
That it has, that it has.

...We should do something, shouldn't we?
Perhaps, perhaps not.
We could leave it be. Let it go its way.
"But something does need doing."

"And that something is?"
To strike the barren earth.
"To crack the ground, and plant a seed."
To water the earth and, if needed, tend the bud.

...

We've known this for a long time. Why haven't we?
A fair question. Distance. Exhaustion. Nerves.
A general disdain for burdens, real or imagined.
"We've made our peace. Haven't we?"

Shush. All of you. Let's start again, from the beginning.

There is, let me think... A pond, yes. Crisp, clear waters. Vibrant, full of life.

Singular.
A point of reference.
Full of potential.
"Hardly a story though. Barely counts as raw material."

Give it time. We have nothing else.

...It could use a hook.
But a simple one. We're out of practice.
How about: Is the pond real, or a metaphor?
"Bit vague. Should we ask for more?"

It will do.

You've heard the chorus. Will the pond be literal, or metaphor? We will await the answers, even one.]]> <![CDATA[in the time of eagles]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7165 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:43:11 +0000 Sleepy]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7165 once a great wind blew through these plains
shaking the leaves of every tree it rushed pass
it is quiet now in the time of eagles and almost everything is still
clouds continue to pass just as they always have
my time with the eagles was well spent 
though i often became intimidated at their stature
small as they might’ve been
 how they called to each other
i watched and tried to mimic them
perhaps i was one of them for a time
 but clouds continue to pass just as they always have
]]> once a great wind blew through these plains
shaking the leaves of every tree it rushed pass
it is quiet now in the time of eagles and almost everything is still
clouds continue to pass just as they always have
my time with the eagles was well spent 
though i often became intimidated at their stature
small as they might’ve been
 how they called to each other
i watched and tried to mimic them
perhaps i was one of them for a time
 but clouds continue to pass just as they always have
]]> <![CDATA[Rejected lines for Charlotte's Web (1973)]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7164 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 04:58:59 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7164
You can (but don't need to) watch the original song "We've Got Lots in Common" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ4ooGPAfps

This particular film beat was not penned by original author, E.B. White, so there had to have been a writer's room meeting to decide what lines they should use to talk about the things that the Charlotte (an orb weaver spider) has in common with Jeffery (a tiny baby gosling).

But the the very first line settled on was: "You've got feathers, I've got skin, but both our outsides hold us in."

Which I feel maybe defeats the purpose of a "We're not so different" song, if the best line you can come up with is like "yeah we've got innards that need to stay in there!" (also pretty sure goslings DO have skin?)

Charlotte chimes in later with another aphorism, "We share the sun, the earth, the sky, and that's the reason why/ We've all got lots in common where it really counts..." I suppose "we live on the same planet" is something they have in common.

What I'm really curious about is...what was it like in that writers room? What were all the rejected lines for this song that just aren't actually true for these friggin barn animals? And are there better lines we could swap out here?

 もしも～し Okay here's the line: "I've got bones and you do too, so I can stand right next to you."
Fact Seagull Spiders have a chitinous exoskeleton and no need for internal bones.
自称霊能力者 霊幻新隆    F Aw beans! ck!


もしも～し "I'll catch flies and you play in streams but both of us have the same dreams!"
Fact Seagull As shown in the book, Charlotte's personal dream is to have hundreds of baby spiders.
自称霊能力者 霊幻新隆 ...
Fact Seagull Some spiders do experience REM-like sleep, but it is not believed that their "dreams" involve the same sensory processing mechanisms found in vertebrates.
自称霊能力者 霊幻新隆 ....]]>
You can (but don't need to) watch the original song "We've Got Lots in Common" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ4ooGPAfps

This particular film beat was not penned by original author, E.B. White, so there had to have been a writer's room meeting to decide what lines they should use to talk about the things that the Charlotte (an orb weaver spider) has in common with Jeffery (a tiny baby gosling).

But the the very first line settled on was: "You've got feathers, I've got skin, but both our outsides hold us in."

Which I feel maybe defeats the purpose of a "We're not so different" song, if the best line you can come up with is like "yeah we've got innards that need to stay in there!" (also pretty sure goslings DO have skin?)

Charlotte chimes in later with another aphorism, "We share the sun, the earth, the sky, and that's the reason why/ We've all got lots in common where it really counts..." I suppose "we live on the same planet" is something they have in common.

What I'm really curious about is...what was it like in that writers room? What were all the rejected lines for this song that just aren't actually true for these friggin barn animals? And are there better lines we could swap out here?

 もしも～し Okay here's the line: "I've got bones and you do too, so I can stand right next to you."
Fact Seagull Spiders have a chitinous exoskeleton and no need for internal bones.
自称霊能力者 霊幻新隆    F Aw beans! ck!


もしも～し "I'll catch flies and you play in streams but both of us have the same dreams!"
Fact Seagull As shown in the book, Charlotte's personal dream is to have hundreds of baby spiders.
自称霊能力者 霊幻新隆 ...
Fact Seagull Some spiders do experience REM-like sleep, but it is not believed that their "dreams" involve the same sensory processing mechanisms found in vertebrates.
自称霊能力者 霊幻新隆 ....]]> <![CDATA[What's the story?]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7163 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:42:03 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7163
But it just dawned on me that Wishbone is for sure dead.]]>
But it just dawned on me that Wishbone is for sure dead.]]> <![CDATA[An important philosophical quandry]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7162 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:48:07 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7162
Specifically, I mean, from a gameplay perspective.

There's 3-4 options that initially come to mind.

1) Fainting (or the total party "white out"), but with the ease that a fainted pokemon can recover at a pokemon center, it hardly carries the same permanence of death.

2) Releasing your pokemon. This, I think is the obvious choice as it carries the permanence of never seeing your pokemon again, but there's enough flavor to suggest the idea that your pokemon is out there in the world possibly living its best life. The loss feels more like a breakup than death.

3) Trading is the weakest inclusion here, as you could in theory have your pokemon traded back to you, and it even remembers that you were the original trainer who caught it. But I think it deserves mention as once the trade occurs, your pokemon is fully gone from your plane of existence.

4) Evolving. See this really shouldn't be on this list. After all, evolution in pokemon is symbolic of growth. It's the reason pokemon go from cute baby to akward middle form before landing into their matured adult form. It's baked into the design of the game and is something to be celebrated.

...however... I'm starting to think that isn't the case.

I think that, in fact, evolution is the most death-like out of all the pokemon game mechanics. It's sudden, sometimes unexpected. The change between forms is abrupt and disjointed. It is permanent. Once your starter baby evolves, it can never go back...


...Maybe I've been thinking about this because my 4 year old really loved her sprigatito. Perhaps this is on my mind because her dad forgot that you're supposed to press "B" repeatedly and not just hold it to prevent her level 34 sprigatitio from evolving. Maybe pokemon scarlett has an autosave function that activates right after evolution completes and frantically resetting the switch doesn't let you go back.

I murdered my daughter's first pokemon, and I don't know what to tell her.]]>
Specifically, I mean, from a gameplay perspective.

There's 3-4 options that initially come to mind.

1) Fainting (or the total party "white out"), but with the ease that a fainted pokemon can recover at a pokemon center, it hardly carries the same permanence of death.

2) Releasing your pokemon. This, I think is the obvious choice as it carries the permanence of never seeing your pokemon again, but there's enough flavor to suggest the idea that your pokemon is out there in the world possibly living its best life. The loss feels more like a breakup than death.

3) Trading is the weakest inclusion here, as you could in theory have your pokemon traded back to you, and it even remembers that you were the original trainer who caught it. But I think it deserves mention as once the trade occurs, your pokemon is fully gone from your plane of existence.

4) Evolving. See this really shouldn't be on this list. After all, evolution in pokemon is symbolic of growth. It's the reason pokemon go from cute baby to akward middle form before landing into their matured adult form. It's baked into the design of the game and is something to be celebrated.

...however... I'm starting to think that isn't the case.

I think that, in fact, evolution is the most death-like out of all the pokemon game mechanics. It's sudden, sometimes unexpected. The change between forms is abrupt and disjointed. It is permanent. Once your starter baby evolves, it can never go back...


...Maybe I've been thinking about this because my 4 year old really loved her sprigatito. Perhaps this is on my mind because her dad forgot that you're supposed to press "B" repeatedly and not just hold it to prevent her level 34 sprigatitio from evolving. Maybe pokemon scarlett has an autosave function that activates right after evolution completes and frantically resetting the switch doesn't let you go back.

I murdered my daughter's first pokemon, and I don't know what to tell her.]]> <![CDATA[Old and basic.]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7161 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:06:03 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7161 You must be registered to view this content.

I'll start:

Quote:Sometimes I'll spend my evenings just watching youtube clips of movies I watched over a decade ago, but the idea of sitting down and just watching the entire film exhausts me.

Also I chose Verdana as the font for this bit because, serifs feel pretentious but using comic sans stresses me out.


Note: If some chucklehead comes in here and says: "Haha, Actually. I'm 19, lmfao." or some BS like that I will ban you so hard in a such blatant unjust abuse of power that a Seal-Team-6 will bust down my door to deport me to the Hauge for trial.

(You're welcome use the space to get in touch with your inner millennial cringe though)]]> You must be registered to view this content.

I'll start:

Quote:Sometimes I'll spend my evenings just watching youtube clips of movies I watched over a decade ago, but the idea of sitting down and just watching the entire film exhausts me.

Also I chose Verdana as the font for this bit because, serifs feel pretentious but using comic sans stresses me out.


Note: If some chucklehead comes in here and says: "Haha, Actually. I'm 19, lmfao." or some BS like that I will ban you so hard in a such blatant unjust abuse of power that a Seal-Team-6 will bust down my door to deport me to the Hauge for trial.

(You're welcome use the space to get in touch with your inner millennial cringe though)]]> <![CDATA[Which animated Chris Pratt is best for a Parks 'n Rec reshoot? [Important]]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7160 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:23:47 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7160
Parks and Rec is already in the crosshairs and I say NO.

We have had enough! There are too many Arrested Fuller House Matters Meets World that have proven the reboot, relaunch formula can only serve to deepen the hollow sadness we all feel inside. NO! Let the original show just BE what it was, we haven't lost it, and we can watch it over again as we like. In the final words of...I think every adventure time character: "We will always be back then."

So no reboots, relaunchs, rebrandings, no what we want is the exact original content, shot for shot
--with each cast member replaced with an animated character that they've voiced in the past 15 years.

We only have a narrow window to coalesce on roster before some NBC bonehead ugly-sonics all over this IP and leaves us picking up the pieces!


So here's my line-up, feel free to adjust as suggested:

Leslie Knope - Amy Poehler : played by Joy from Inside Out.
Ann Perkins - Rashida Jones: played by Alva from the Netflix Christmas special Klaus
Ron Swanson - Nick Offerman: played by Axe Cop from Axe Cop
April Ludgate - Aubrey Plaza: played by Julie Powers from Scot Pilgrim Takes Off
Andy Dwyer - Chris Pratt: played by....

Okay so it should be Mario right?

But also Emmet was a classic character, and arguably the most Andy Dwyer out of Chris' filmography, but...looks up Chris Pratt... Okay so he's also GARFIELD?

Do you understand why we need to lock this down!?

Help.]]>
Parks and Rec is already in the crosshairs and I say NO.

We have had enough! There are too many Arrested Fuller House Matters Meets World that have proven the reboot, relaunch formula can only serve to deepen the hollow sadness we all feel inside. NO! Let the original show just BE what it was, we haven't lost it, and we can watch it over again as we like. In the final words of...I think every adventure time character: "We will always be back then."

So no reboots, relaunchs, rebrandings, no what we want is the exact original content, shot for shot
--with each cast member replaced with an animated character that they've voiced in the past 15 years.

We only have a narrow window to coalesce on roster before some NBC bonehead ugly-sonics all over this IP and leaves us picking up the pieces!


So here's my line-up, feel free to adjust as suggested:

Leslie Knope - Amy Poehler : played by Joy from Inside Out.
Ann Perkins - Rashida Jones: played by Alva from the Netflix Christmas special Klaus
Ron Swanson - Nick Offerman: played by Axe Cop from Axe Cop
April Ludgate - Aubrey Plaza: played by Julie Powers from Scot Pilgrim Takes Off
Andy Dwyer - Chris Pratt: played by....

Okay so it should be Mario right?

But also Emmet was a classic character, and arguably the most Andy Dwyer out of Chris' filmography, but...looks up Chris Pratt... Okay so he's also GARFIELD?

Do you understand why we need to lock this down!?

Help.]]> <![CDATA[Marty the Party Cat completely ruins the power-scaling of Gabby's Dollhouse.]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7159 Mon, 16 Sep 2024 03:15:48 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7159
Look, I know it's not an uncommon opinion to be miffed at the addition of Marty the Party cat to the Dreamworks' Netflix original series Gabby's Dollhouse Season 10.

Has Gabby jumped the cat-shark? Yes. Obviously. But that's not the issue here.

Sure, Marty is an unwelcome addition to a cat-cast of meow-members who were all themed around some sort of creative endeavor. (Cat Rat and Pandy notwithstanding). I mean, you have cooking, science, storytelling, music, gardening, crafting, exercise, and now...I guess Partying??? Immediately Marty is not looking like a great role model for young aspiring STEAM centric creatives, but sure let's throw in a PARTY CAT.

No, even that obvious clash to an otherwise cathesive show, isn't my greatest gripe about Marty.

Marty's addition to the dollhouse completely ruins the established powerscaling hierarchy present in Gabby's Dollhouse.

To understand, we have to look at the existing powerscaling debates: Which Gabby Cat would come out on top if entered into some grandbattle esque tournament?

Obviously last place would be Pandy - He's the generic every-cat and while he does apparently have a bag of holding, he hasn't demonstrated the creativity needed to use it to its full potential. Not to mention his awful stealth score - Every "hug attack" can be seen coming from a mile away. No Pandy is easily the last place cattender in the dollhouse. F tier.

Close to Pandy is Cakey. While Cakey can generate sprinkles on command, they lack the projectile force to make him a true threat. Not to mention his body is mostly frosting?? However, Cakey does have access to and skill with a variety of kitchen tools, but hasn't been seen using anything that could constitute a danger to the other in-cat-habitants. Also F tier.

Entering D tier we have BabyBox. This animated on 6's cardboard box cat has shown some versatility and is the only gabby cat to have access to a blade like weapon (safety scissors) and copious amounts of glue and glitter. But as we'll see, cat-ventional weaponry will not be the deciding factor in our claws-out throwdown. D tier.

Rounding out D tier, we have Gabby. Yes, the titular dollhouse owner doesn't even make it halfway up the roster. Don't get me wrong. Base-Form Gabby is a BEAST. She's larger, faster, stronger and unaffected by any of the other Gabbycast's magical effects - but once it's "Time to get Tiny" Gabby trades off her human stature and strength for the ability to interact with her cat friends more directly (huge mistake) and the only perk she has in her Tiny form is the ability to change her hair color, a purrley cosmetic effect.

Now, Gabby *might* be able to leave her tiny form at will - which would obviously meow-tapult her to S tier, but in over 10 seasons, she has not once demonstrated the required action to leave the dollhouse. We get to see the "Gabbycat of the day" and then she's just...back in Base-Form. It seems like the ability to end Tiny-Time is dependent on completing whatever the task of the day is. If the task of the day is: battle to the death, Tiny-Form Gabby has no chance. D tier.

*Honorable mention to Floyd. Being a real actual cat, there doesn't seem to be anything to stop him from destroying the entire dollhouse, but also there's nothing binding him to participate in the battle royale.* Floyd tier.

Now on to C tier. You guessed it, C stands for Cat Rat. This big-headed blue  Aw beans! shole certainly has the cattitude required to take out every member of the dollhouse crew, and his ability to slip in and out of small openings with ease does make him the most nimble cat-tender in the lineup, but even he admits that his powers are due to his "beautiful deli(cat)e bones" which is not the type of physiology you want to bring to a free-for-all. He won't be the first to go out, but he also won't be the last cat standing.

C also stands for CAR. Carlita has the opposite issue of CatRat, she's a litter-al powerhouse, but her bulky inflexible build means it'll be hard for her to build up the momentum required to override the cat-paw-tition. She's slightly higher on the powerscale than CatRat, primarily because of how friendly the smooth interiors of the dollhouse are to her mobility. But even in difficat terrain, Carlita has shown remarkable physical powress, even beating Gabby and Pandy in a VERTICAL ROCK WALL CLIMB. However, she's stuck at C tier...mainly because two other dollhouse members can just fly.

In B tier, we have...OH CRAP I FORGOT ABOUT PILLOWCAT. F tier. Double F tier. Pillowcat's whole deal is being a sleepy pillow. Literally the worst thing to be in a house entirely filled with cats. Now pillowcat does have immediate access to the dressup closet, which itself might be sentient? But unless there's a Gabby-Cat Mech suit in there, I don't see Pillowcat rolling out of this one.

Alright, B tier. It's Kitty Fairy. I actually don't know what "Garden Magic" en-tails? But there's clearly some kind of plant-affinity. She's given plants the ability to speak, and is only one ecoterrorist youtube-binge away from being a full fledged Poison Ivy. The ambiguity of her powers, plus her flight and small form factor carves out her place in B tier. (Oh also maybe she has access to kitty-bees).

A tier: DJ Catnip. His physiology is terrifying. A fully prehensile tail, bioluminescent limbs, all of which are completely retractible and we have yet to see how far they can extend. He also has access to the most high paw-powered equipment out of the GabbyCats (although it is all completely music based). It is unclear if he also has magical abilities, considering how important song is to the GabbyCat's routine if he is able to manipawlate "music magic" in any way he could seriously disrupt the rest of the dollhouse crew. It is also very unclear what is relationship is with narclawtics. The entire mysterious and somewhat eldrtich nature of this GabbyCat puts him here at the top.

S tier: Now I know that others out there have disagreed, with this top ranking, but others are WRONG and should feel bad about their life-choices. Mercat, paws down, is the most powerful GabbyCat of the bunch. First off- she can fly, but also breathe underwater indefinitely. She styles herself a "Spa-scientist", but aside from color mixing I have seen very little actual science take place in her bathroom. I'm convinced her concoctions of potions and gems are the result of an intimate knowledge of spa-sorcery. Now, I know that any sufficiently advanced spa-science will seem like spa-magic to the uninitiated. But we KNOW that the dollhouse has ACTUAL MAGIC and Mercat has demonstrated the most pawmazing abilities out of all of the GabbyCats. Shrink someone down to the size of a soap bubble? Done. Instant teleport to Merlantis? Easy. Fully change the morphology of another GabbyCat against their will? Just a normal day in the Gabby Dollhouse bathroom. Mercat destroys the rest of the dollhouse.

So that's the power scale for Gabby'sDollhouse, clear, understandable, defensible.

ENTER MARTY THE PARTY CAT

This pom-pom sparkle-tailed garfield has the MOST INSANE ABILITY to "Create ANY PARTY you want."

Do you hear that? ANY. PARTY. YOU. WANT.

Now, the creators Gabby's Dollhouse would say "Well he only has that ability in the new 'Party Room'. He's balanced. "

No. No he is not.

First off, "The Party Room"??? There was no "PARTY" room in the dollhouse. For 9 seasons we had no party room. And Marty just appears and mysteriously the top half of the dollhouse is now "Party Room". That's a 1/4 of the entire dollhouse! What is stopping Marty from expanding the party room? They've had parties...in EVERY ROOM in the dollhouse. The entire place is LOADED with party energy, nothing is stopping Marty from using his powers uncattrollably.

Also, physically, he has the same retractable limb situation that DJ Catnip has - and ALSO apparently the ability to just float people out of the dollhouse? (His Marty Party song is unclear on this effect).

Psychologically, he has the same core narcatcissistic tendencies as Cat Rat. His entire "GabbyCat of the Day" song is centered around having a "Marty Party". Unlike the other gabby cats (except catrat) that use their song to encourage others to create crafts or food, or that it's okay to make mistakes, his entire moral is that you should have more of him.

Sure, maybe he knocks Mercat out of S tier...except, the first time we see his powers, it's not Marty controlling them. It's CatRat with Marty's Party Tail. Marty's Tail (which, remeowber can create "ANY PARTY" you want) is an equipable item!

Now the entire tier list comes down to "Who gets the Party Tail?" Maybe Marty gets it. OR Maybe Pandy hug attacks it into his bag of holding and becomes the ALL-PAWERFUL PARTY PANDY! Maybe Carlita gets it and now were having a highway party in Meowtana which has NO speed limit. Maybe a random hamsterkitty snags it and we are just playthings in its cosmic hamsterkitty party void.

It's like the creators of the show don't understand the delicate balance they had their characters placed in for NINE seasons. It's unexplainable.





...

Marty the Party Cat came to my town in real life and I did not allow my loved ones to visit him.]]>
Look, I know it's not an uncommon opinion to be miffed at the addition of Marty the Party cat to the Dreamworks' Netflix original series Gabby's Dollhouse Season 10.

Has Gabby jumped the cat-shark? Yes. Obviously. But that's not the issue here.

Sure, Marty is an unwelcome addition to a cat-cast of meow-members who were all themed around some sort of creative endeavor. (Cat Rat and Pandy notwithstanding). I mean, you have cooking, science, storytelling, music, gardening, crafting, exercise, and now...I guess Partying??? Immediately Marty is not looking like a great role model for young aspiring STEAM centric creatives, but sure let's throw in a PARTY CAT.

No, even that obvious clash to an otherwise cathesive show, isn't my greatest gripe about Marty.

Marty's addition to the dollhouse completely ruins the established powerscaling hierarchy present in Gabby's Dollhouse.

To understand, we have to look at the existing powerscaling debates: Which Gabby Cat would come out on top if entered into some grandbattle esque tournament?

Obviously last place would be Pandy - He's the generic every-cat and while he does apparently have a bag of holding, he hasn't demonstrated the creativity needed to use it to its full potential. Not to mention his awful stealth score - Every "hug attack" can be seen coming from a mile away. No Pandy is easily the last place cattender in the dollhouse. F tier.

Close to Pandy is Cakey. While Cakey can generate sprinkles on command, they lack the projectile force to make him a true threat. Not to mention his body is mostly frosting?? However, Cakey does have access to and skill with a variety of kitchen tools, but hasn't been seen using anything that could constitute a danger to the other in-cat-habitants. Also F tier.

Entering D tier we have BabyBox. This animated on 6's cardboard box cat has shown some versatility and is the only gabby cat to have access to a blade like weapon (safety scissors) and copious amounts of glue and glitter. But as we'll see, cat-ventional weaponry will not be the deciding factor in our claws-out throwdown. D tier.

Rounding out D tier, we have Gabby. Yes, the titular dollhouse owner doesn't even make it halfway up the roster. Don't get me wrong. Base-Form Gabby is a BEAST. She's larger, faster, stronger and unaffected by any of the other Gabbycast's magical effects - but once it's "Time to get Tiny" Gabby trades off her human stature and strength for the ability to interact with her cat friends more directly (huge mistake) and the only perk she has in her Tiny form is the ability to change her hair color, a purrley cosmetic effect.

Now, Gabby *might* be able to leave her tiny form at will - which would obviously meow-tapult her to S tier, but in over 10 seasons, she has not once demonstrated the required action to leave the dollhouse. We get to see the "Gabbycat of the day" and then she's just...back in Base-Form. It seems like the ability to end Tiny-Time is dependent on completing whatever the task of the day is. If the task of the day is: battle to the death, Tiny-Form Gabby has no chance. D tier.

*Honorable mention to Floyd. Being a real actual cat, there doesn't seem to be anything to stop him from destroying the entire dollhouse, but also there's nothing binding him to participate in the battle royale.* Floyd tier.

Now on to C tier. You guessed it, C stands for Cat Rat. This big-headed blue  Aw beans! shole certainly has the cattitude required to take out every member of the dollhouse crew, and his ability to slip in and out of small openings with ease does make him the most nimble cat-tender in the lineup, but even he admits that his powers are due to his "beautiful deli(cat)e bones" which is not the type of physiology you want to bring to a free-for-all. He won't be the first to go out, but he also won't be the last cat standing.

C also stands for CAR. Carlita has the opposite issue of CatRat, she's a litter-al powerhouse, but her bulky inflexible build means it'll be hard for her to build up the momentum required to override the cat-paw-tition. She's slightly higher on the powerscale than CatRat, primarily because of how friendly the smooth interiors of the dollhouse are to her mobility. But even in difficat terrain, Carlita has shown remarkable physical powress, even beating Gabby and Pandy in a VERTICAL ROCK WALL CLIMB. However, she's stuck at C tier...mainly because two other dollhouse members can just fly.

In B tier, we have...OH CRAP I FORGOT ABOUT PILLOWCAT. F tier. Double F tier. Pillowcat's whole deal is being a sleepy pillow. Literally the worst thing to be in a house entirely filled with cats. Now pillowcat does have immediate access to the dressup closet, which itself might be sentient? But unless there's a Gabby-Cat Mech suit in there, I don't see Pillowcat rolling out of this one.

Alright, B tier. It's Kitty Fairy. I actually don't know what "Garden Magic" en-tails? But there's clearly some kind of plant-affinity. She's given plants the ability to speak, and is only one ecoterrorist youtube-binge away from being a full fledged Poison Ivy. The ambiguity of her powers, plus her flight and small form factor carves out her place in B tier. (Oh also maybe she has access to kitty-bees).

A tier: DJ Catnip. His physiology is terrifying. A fully prehensile tail, bioluminescent limbs, all of which are completely retractible and we have yet to see how far they can extend. He also has access to the most high paw-powered equipment out of the GabbyCats (although it is all completely music based). It is unclear if he also has magical abilities, considering how important song is to the GabbyCat's routine if he is able to manipawlate "music magic" in any way he could seriously disrupt the rest of the dollhouse crew. It is also very unclear what is relationship is with narclawtics. The entire mysterious and somewhat eldrtich nature of this GabbyCat puts him here at the top.

S tier: Now I know that others out there have disagreed, with this top ranking, but others are WRONG and should feel bad about their life-choices. Mercat, paws down, is the most powerful GabbyCat of the bunch. First off- she can fly, but also breathe underwater indefinitely. She styles herself a "Spa-scientist", but aside from color mixing I have seen very little actual science take place in her bathroom. I'm convinced her concoctions of potions and gems are the result of an intimate knowledge of spa-sorcery. Now, I know that any sufficiently advanced spa-science will seem like spa-magic to the uninitiated. But we KNOW that the dollhouse has ACTUAL MAGIC and Mercat has demonstrated the most pawmazing abilities out of all of the GabbyCats. Shrink someone down to the size of a soap bubble? Done. Instant teleport to Merlantis? Easy. Fully change the morphology of another GabbyCat against their will? Just a normal day in the Gabby Dollhouse bathroom. Mercat destroys the rest of the dollhouse.

So that's the power scale for Gabby'sDollhouse, clear, understandable, defensible.

ENTER MARTY THE PARTY CAT

This pom-pom sparkle-tailed garfield has the MOST INSANE ABILITY to "Create ANY PARTY you want."

Do you hear that? ANY. PARTY. YOU. WANT.

Now, the creators Gabby's Dollhouse would say "Well he only has that ability in the new 'Party Room'. He's balanced. "

No. No he is not.

First off, "The Party Room"??? There was no "PARTY" room in the dollhouse. For 9 seasons we had no party room. And Marty just appears and mysteriously the top half of the dollhouse is now "Party Room". That's a 1/4 of the entire dollhouse! What is stopping Marty from expanding the party room? They've had parties...in EVERY ROOM in the dollhouse. The entire place is LOADED with party energy, nothing is stopping Marty from using his powers uncattrollably.

Also, physically, he has the same retractable limb situation that DJ Catnip has - and ALSO apparently the ability to just float people out of the dollhouse? (His Marty Party song is unclear on this effect).

Psychologically, he has the same core narcatcissistic tendencies as Cat Rat. His entire "GabbyCat of the Day" song is centered around having a "Marty Party". Unlike the other gabby cats (except catrat) that use their song to encourage others to create crafts or food, or that it's okay to make mistakes, his entire moral is that you should have more of him.

Sure, maybe he knocks Mercat out of S tier...except, the first time we see his powers, it's not Marty controlling them. It's CatRat with Marty's Party Tail. Marty's Tail (which, remeowber can create "ANY PARTY" you want) is an equipable item!

Now the entire tier list comes down to "Who gets the Party Tail?" Maybe Marty gets it. OR Maybe Pandy hug attacks it into his bag of holding and becomes the ALL-PAWERFUL PARTY PANDY! Maybe Carlita gets it and now were having a highway party in Meowtana which has NO speed limit. Maybe a random hamsterkitty snags it and we are just playthings in its cosmic hamsterkitty party void.

It's like the creators of the show don't understand the delicate balance they had their characters placed in for NINE seasons. It's unexplainable.





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Marty the Party Cat came to my town in real life and I did not allow my loved ones to visit him.]]> <![CDATA[Oh no! I forgot about Tim!]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7158 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 02:56:56 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7158
I already had the versatile eagle-tim.com domain available for this so I just used that as the url base.

Well, Ix was tricked and with the mission accomplished I sort of....forgot about Eagle-Tim...and uh I went to check on it the other day and uh...

Well if you ever wanted to know what Eagle-time would look like with zero spam filters...

[Image: BVZCg4V.png]

[Image: a4ZRuq1.png]]]>
I already had the versatile eagle-tim.com domain available for this so I just used that as the url base.

Well, Ix was tricked and with the mission accomplished I sort of....forgot about Eagle-Tim...and uh I went to check on it the other day and uh...

Well if you ever wanted to know what Eagle-time would look like with zero spam filters...

[Image: BVZCg4V.png]

[Image: a4ZRuq1.png]]]> <![CDATA[Ask me about blaseball and teaching in semi-rural New Zealand.]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7157 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:53:35 +0000 Schazer]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7157
So I’m fielding questions about two things I got up to in these intervening years which, other than some p neat life milestones, are probably the two main things:


-Blaseball
-being a high school biology teacher in semi-rural New Zealand.

So yeah. I will take all questions until 3am Central European time on Saturday. Then someone else can take over this thread and tell us what they got up to.]]>
So I’m fielding questions about two things I got up to in these intervening years which, other than some p neat life milestones, are probably the two main things:


-Blaseball
-being a high school biology teacher in semi-rural New Zealand.

So yeah. I will take all questions until 3am Central European time on Saturday. Then someone else can take over this thread and tell us what they got up to.]]> <![CDATA[I return!]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7156 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 01:34:20 +0000 Purple Walrus]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7156
What have I missed gang?!

I'm happy it's still up after all this time.]]>
What have I missed gang?!

I'm happy it's still up after all this time.]]> <![CDATA[Watch Anime Together]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7155 Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:52:37 +0000 Ixcaliber]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7155
For the first run of the anime group I thought um maybe we could watch Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight together. I hear its a pretty fun anime and think everyone would have a really great time watching together.

If you want to take part all you need to go is watch the first episode and then come back and we'll get to talking about it here in the thread.]]>
For the first run of the anime group I thought um maybe we could watch Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight together. I hear its a pretty fun anime and think everyone would have a really great time watching together.

If you want to take part all you need to go is watch the first episode and then come back and we'll get to talking about it here in the thread.]]> <![CDATA[What is your favorite Eagle-Time arc?]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7154 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 02:53:58 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7154
I mean, for me it's hard to pick a favorite but I suppose a top contender was the Mafia arc, really got a lot of good character development in that one, lots of intrigue, although it got a little stale towards the end.

Oh! the pharmdrugs takeover arc was choice. Everyone was like "Ohhh it's pharmdrugs, who could it be??" It was such a popular premise they made them a central figure in the Chaos arc, but by then everyone knew who they were and they got heavily nerfed.]]>
I mean, for me it's hard to pick a favorite but I suppose a top contender was the Mafia arc, really got a lot of good character development in that one, lots of intrigue, although it got a little stale towards the end.

Oh! the pharmdrugs takeover arc was choice. Everyone was like "Ohhh it's pharmdrugs, who could it be??" It was such a popular premise they made them a central figure in the Chaos arc, but by then everyone knew who they were and they got heavily nerfed.]]> <![CDATA[E-Z Mall E22]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7153 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:45:41 +0000 Ixcaliber]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7153

It's your first day working as a corporate Avatar here at the local E-Z Mall. You stop in front of the animatronic that was put in to replace physical maps for the sake of 'immersion' and hesitantly ask:

"Hi, could you - ?"

"Welcome to the Interdimensional Rift, a world between worlds where talented Worldwalkers like yourself may travel between many disparate and incompatible universes. I am The Director and I will be happy to offer you direction to whichever of our connected universes you wish to visit today."

You roll your eyes as it lurches awkwardly from side to side, its projected face cycling through a total of three different emotions. Finally it completes its spiel. "Show me the map please."

The image on its monitor shifts and a map of the E-Z Mall is projected there instead.

[Image: ezm2.png]

What store were you hired to work at again?

Show Content

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It's your first day working as a corporate Avatar here at the local E-Z Mall. You stop in front of the animatronic that was put in to replace physical maps for the sake of 'immersion' and hesitantly ask:

"Hi, could you - ?"

"Welcome to the Interdimensional Rift, a world between worlds where talented Worldwalkers like yourself may travel between many disparate and incompatible universes. I am The Director and I will be happy to offer you direction to whichever of our connected universes you wish to visit today."

You roll your eyes as it lurches awkwardly from side to side, its projected face cycling through a total of three different emotions. Finally it completes its spiel. "Show me the map please."

The image on its monitor shifts and a map of the E-Z Mall is projected there instead.

[Image: ezm2.png]

What store were you hired to work at again?

Show Content

>]]> <![CDATA[State your case]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7152 Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:17:26 +0000 btp]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=7152
Among them is a collection of books about all 50 US states, each state getting a book.

My purchase included 39 of these books.

Make a guess as to which state(s) are missing from my collection, if you guess correctly, I will send a book to any address in the continental US of your choosing.

(Note: I will veto anything along the lines of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, because I am a coward.)

Bonus points if your guess includes a convincing or dramatic reason as to why that particular state didn't make the cut.

Bonus points may be redeemed for your personal additions to the book.

At the moment, I don't know what the answer is, because I am also impulsive and couldn't be bothered to check before writing this.

Deadline is in...let's say, a week, I guess? I gotta move these books.]]>
Among them is a collection of books about all 50 US states, each state getting a book.

My purchase included 39 of these books.

Make a guess as to which state(s) are missing from my collection, if you guess correctly, I will send a book to any address in the continental US of your choosing.

(Note: I will veto anything along the lines of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, because I am a coward.)

Bonus points if your guess includes a convincing or dramatic reason as to why that particular state didn't make the cut.

Bonus points may be redeemed for your personal additions to the book.

At the moment, I don't know what the answer is, because I am also impulsive and couldn't be bothered to check before writing this.

Deadline is in...let's say, a week, I guess? I gotta move these books.]]>