Turns out the Tyranids left their home galaxy to escape the Gems

>Turns out the Tyranids left their home galaxy to escape the Gems.

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>Turns out the Tyranids left their home galaxy to escape tumblrfaggots

fuck outta here

>Turns out the tumblrfaggots left their home galaxy to escape tumblrfaggots

The only things I know about these things is that they are libtards made cartoon

explain to me these things

Evil empire of shapeshifting aliens with caste system organized by gem type.

There's not much to it really. It's a kids cartoon with annoying characters. Some people like the aesthetics of it, while some people like it because it has magical space lesbians that are transforming rocks that Dragonball style fuse. Generally I think it's pretty shit

The part that's relevant right now is that there's a species of waifu-themed artificially created berzerker Von Neumann machines built to assault, transform, and consume planets. They're weirdly individual for this purpose and there's internal struggle as a result.

There's also a kid's show attached to this premise for some reason.

This, pretty much.

Greg and Andy are best characters. Steven is becoming a reasonable character.

Peridot is best gem, though that's not saying much.

They're genderless alien gem things with hardlight bodies, ruled by a caste system.

They're a neat alien race if you can ignore the heavy-handed gender politics.

What said, but he neglected to mention they're silicon-based lifeforms, literally largeish sentient gemstones that create solid light 'bodies' around themselves to appear humanoid.

Technically genderless, they regardless express their bodies as exclusively female. They reproduce by harvesting the minerals of rocky planets, leading me to theorize that they aren't a natural race but rather a constructed one that may have once been the servitors of an older and more powerful race.

Their society is extremely rigid. There is no mobility in caste, and each caste has a different form and relative power level. Rubies are disposable ground troops, pearls are lowest of the low servants, various varieties of quartz are mook lieutenants and shock troopers, peridots serve as skilled workers and engineers, various other gem castes fill various other roles, and at the top of the caste are diamonds, of which there are only 3-4 at a time. These are leaders with the most independent thought, largest in size, and most powerful in terms of pure combat prowess.

Their technology is advanced, mostly based on solid light, though they do use rock, metal, and crystal in many cases. They have FTL, high-tier energy weapons, teleportation, and gravity manipulation.

Here's where the stupid starts. The show centers on Steven, a human-gem hybrid that shouldn't exist and the ultimate fate of is anyone's guess, and a few gems known as "The Crystal Gems" that rebelled from the caste system and set about making Earth their home when the human race was still in the Stone Age. They ended up kicking the larger empire off Earth, leaving it litered with gem ruins, experiments, and monsters, and remained the only gems on the planet for millennia. They watched humanity come into it's own, interacting with humans at times. Despite this, they still have only a loose grasp on human culture, emotions, and society.

is that a dreidel?

Actually a pretty thought post on /pol/ about SU.

Also, don't forget gems that came inperfect in their making are seem as even more low class, and used as guards/ manual labor, and the gems on Earth were capable of winning because they had more numbers before, but said numbers are half locked away because they turned into extremists, and other half were captured and used for nazi level experiments.

I find it even funny. I have some friends that 4chin would call tumbrl faggot leftist orother buzzword, and they simply hate Rose. Why? Because she was the leader of the rebellion and by pure curiosity after I dont know how many millenia killed herself trying to reproduce with a human, that in consequence made the gem rebellion looser, one of her most trusted lietnants bitter and also said human she reproduced with. And what came out of her? An weird hybrid of gem and human that doesnt seem to adapt well, has unstable powers and seems extremelly childish.

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>doesnt seem to adapt well

That's like one of the big reasons Steven is so important to the Crystal Gems because adapts. Shit, if it wasn't for Steven adapting to the situation and befriending Peridot the Earth would have been destroyed by the Cluster.

My personal theory is that Steven is a budding Empath, and the whole series started as Sugar's idea of "What if we made the anime protagonist's stupid-high charisma ability to make friends with everyone even enemies a realistic concept?"

It's probably because it's a kids show but I find the idea that the breaking point is supposed this terrifying instrument of genocide to be utterly laughable, I mean for fucks sake it's just a big tungsten carbide pile driver. It's made even worse by the fact that by my calculations (based on amethysts fall) a .338 lapua should be able to put about 1000 Newtons more force than what it took to crack a quartz class gem.

Con't. Sorry, internet dropped out of nowhere and had to switch to mobile to type out the rest.

Steven was created when their leader Rose Quartz fell in love with a human NEET named Greg. I shit you not, a millennia old intelligent construct fell in love with a 20-something wannabe rocker who legally changed his last name to Universe. Anyway they somehow bumped uglies and got Rose pregnant, even though that's not something gems should be even remotely capable of. Instead of ending like a regular pregnancy, this sin cost Rose her life as she was absorbed into her newborn son, a gem-human hybrid with his dead mom's physical gemstone form embedded in his belly.

Steven has some of the abilities of a gem, like he can manifest hard light melee weapons and shapeshift. He discovers more powers as the series goes, but no one really knows the extent of his potential. He still needs to eat and breath like a regular human though, and he seems to be aging albeit at a slower rate. Besides that he's a cute fat kid with boundless optimism, absolutely sickening at times really.

Basically the show revolves around Steven and his lesbian space rock surrogate mothers Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl going on missions to secure ancient gem ruins, artifacts, and monsters. Occasionally his deadbeat dad stumbled in when he's not running a shitty car wash or getting high in the back of the van he lives in.

I only watch it for the lore, the characters are nearly intolerable.

So far, from what we've seen, I'd almost conclude that due to the gems interference humanity took a more peaceful route in history, probably because Rose kept stopping fights because muh humans.

People crying about ITS TUMBLR about this show are just a bunch of dumb faggots.
If anything the series makes tumblerites super mad because of the fact it doesn't follow or try to cater to their insane extremist beliefs.
It takes more than a couple of gay characters to actually make a show "tumblr".

I thought they were running from pic related.

Is that a virus?

Pretty much this. I find it hilarious that we argue more about this show than Dumblr or Plebbit does.

X-parasites are dumb as fuck, horrible idea.

I'm genuinely impressed by how accurate that analysis of the show is.
Also, never thought I'd see the day when I'd be praising something coming straight out of /pol/. We are truly living strange times, aren't we ?

>We are truly living strange times, aren't we ?
Not strange enough
Not yet

I get told it feels "SoCal", whatever that means.

I haven't watched the show in a while, but yeah, it's a pretty good analysis.
In particular, that last part about how it reads like particularly good HFY is quite accurate.

SoCalization, the byproduct of a majority of TV shows and Movies adopting the laws and politics of the area their studios are based in, namely Southern California. Stuff like Age of Consent, Driving Age, Traffic Laws, and political views are adopted by the show.

Interestingly enough, the latest episodes, wich have been some of the best, have been very anti-libtard.

Also the ending of Lion 3 is a pretty comfy, and paints a nice message about the importance of family love and the beauty of childbirth.

Also Tumblr gets super salty that the show paints Bismuth, who is essentially "Black Lives Matter: The Character" as a bad person who needed to be locked up for her own good

Holy shit, I agree with /pol/ for once? What sorcery is this?

Well if anything then they'd definitely have guns that could hurt gems, as hunting weapons tend to be designed for single shots that will kill really big things in one shot, whereas a lot of modern military weapons are more about putting out loads of lower calibre bullets more so for their ability to pin targets than to actually kill things in one shot.

And besides we know that modern tanks have been invented in their world so clearly they can't be too far off in military capability.

Still they feel really weak for a supposedly FTL capable inter-galactic type 2-3 empire.
Especially when going by the murals of the various diamonds they only seem to control about 60 celestial bodies between them.

>emprah dies
>eye of terra is created
>somehow the astronomican still stays on
>the astronomican lures the nids into the eye of terra

brilliant

This... is incredible, well-reasoned meta-analysis of a korean picture show that plays on a channel with "Cartoon" in the name. I am both appalled and aroused. Truly, we live in a wonderous age!

I think that's owed to the fact that they've gone largely uncontested in the galaxy. The Earth Rebellion was a big Fucking deal. A Diamond had never been shattered before, and no one ever bothered to rebel before. Basically the Gem's first contact with alien life was earth, and it basically shoved a massive wrench in their machine.

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Whether intentionally or not, Steven Universe portrays fathers and father figures in a positive light while throwing shade on an incompetent and violent matriarchal society.

Well okay then

but Greg doesnt seem like the greatest parent ever even if he can change a diaper

The tl;dr goes into Greg's portrayal too.

They're three lesbians raising a retarded son.

>that's unironically why I'm on Veeky Forums now
Tumblr was such a toxic shithole, most of the normal non she fags fled and ended up either here or reddit

They mean the art style. Which is why the statement means nothing to me.

>Holy shit, I agree with /pol/ for once? What sorcery is this?
Maybe you stopped being wrong. /pol/ is often correct.

The gems are a race of super powered all female matriarchs who are constantly shown as intensely flawed and hypocritical, and their society is genocidal with leaders happy to blow up planets from sheer spite.

The only hope for humanity is for a weird small white boy to grow into a true leader and save the gems from themselves.

As you can see it is a very tumblr show.

Welp, If anything this is the smoking gun we're looking for.

See, /co/ to some degree liked SU, as evidenced by /sug/ they argue about it, but they argue about it within the fanbase.

Veeky Forums on the other hand, argues about whether it's a good show or not incessantly. Mainly because we want to like this show. It has better characterization, better story, and better lore than a metric fuckton of cartoons out there, yet we get so hung up on the SJW shit that it prevents us from discerning whether it's actually enjoyable or not.

This, however, makes the show absolutely amazing. Looking at in this light, the show isn't SJW, it's Rhetoric that smashes everything the fanbase stands for, and makes it highly appealing.

Also, because this is the OP's description:

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Yes it's exactly what you think. I have no idea if it's good or not.

Even then you'd think for how advanced they even their mining equipment would be vastly superior to modern human weapons.

I mean look at the BETA from Muv-Luv, very few of the BETA types are actually primarily designed for combat and yet they basically steamrolled earth for the longest time.

But again this is a kids show so it should really be except, and I shouldn't be comparing it to something as gory and pornographic as Muv-Luv of all things.

>It's actually secretly redpilled goys!
Yeah, nah. This is one of 'those' posts to try and calm people.
>"This was our argument for mass effect 10 years ago!"
Fuck off mate

>boy

Caltech produced a number of high profile artists in the past 10 years who all had a signature style based around blobby wobbly characters that could be produced quickly without worrying much about QUALITY happening from rushed animation.

It's the Adventure Time/Star vs Forces of Evil/Gumball/Chowder/Steven Universe/Cartoon Network in general artstyle.

I'm impressed they managed to squeeze that much cancer into a single image.

Reading this reminded me of the special screenings for autistic people that my local cinema runs.

Now whenever I see them advertised I'm going to imagine that they all have a guy in a Disney character mask stood next to the screen, stating out loud every character nuance for the disabled audience and framing them as special secrets that others can't see.

The analysis of the show itself is pretty much spot on. The /pol/ only leaks through in the tangential analysis, like the digs that women (by right of lacking the most important thinking organ a human can possess: a penis) are physically unable to conceive of women as being the bad guys, so all of this 'goes over their heads'.

Its still a good analysis of the show, but it could be edited down to strip out the unnecessary /pol/pinions.

>If I overanalize a cartoon I can make it corroborate my world view.
Damn it's like people shipping characters who only talk two seconds to each other but at a whole other level.

Actually, hes an excellent father figure given the circumstances. If you notice throughout the series Greg is usually the main person Steven goes to for emotional support and advice, he always tries to involve himself in Steven's life and teach him things, he's open to Steven about his past and the lessons he can learn from it, and he tries to be a somewhat positive role-model and be active in the raising of his son?

Is he perfect? No, but no one is, and he has had to do a lot of growing up since his younger and reckless days. But from the flashbacks you can definitely see how he has grown and matured from the idiot young man he was. Plus being a single father, having to share time with your son with a bunch of alien rock ladies who have no idea how biological life works and who are generally distrustful of you (or outright hostile like Pearl), has got to be pretty difficult to deal with and manage.

Really, he's a decent parent and honestly does the best for his son, and performs admirably when you look at the shit hand life had dealt him in regards to trying to raise his son.

Plus considering he has fulfilled Veeky Forums's great goal of boning a hot alien chick and having a hybrid son, that man has got to be some kind of Hero to Veeky Forums

Explained this way Gems seem like a combination of Orks and the society from Brave New World.

This pretty much.

My opinion is that FTL is relatively recent for their empire, they just had the advantage of being essentially immortal except through violence. In the last few episodes the crystal gems were surprised at sudden FTL jumps.
They do have some form of teleportation technology, but according to episodes it's the kind where you have to get there first, build it, then you can get free travel.

Rose was banking on the role humans could play, probably in the long game.

Leads me to believeis right, that they're actually relatively new or unchallenged to the galactic scene.

My personal belief is that the gem 'empire' is old, but only old in that gems don't give any fuck about long interstellar voyages- The gem rebellion was able to hold out because they had time to entrench, and then centuries of the diamonds backing off because it's one world that was a pet project of Pink's.

STORYTIEM posts on /pol/?

The value is in it's ability to present the broad themes of a cartoon in a way that's salty enough for /pol/ consumption. It's built to break through the barriers they put up and give them something that's about on their level to enjoy. It might be ugly as fuck to read, but it's a noble effort to help the autistic.

Steven universe is shit and the only reason people remember it exists is MUH PROGRESSIVE POLITICS and MUH ANIME REFERENCES

>but Greg doesnt seem like the greatest parent ever even if he can change a diaper

He comes off as bumbling but is actually a really good Dad in a pinch. He jsut doesn't know shit about aliens.

There's actually an episode that just came out that shows him learning to be a good single Dad.

Space lesbians protect a half-alien human boy in saturday morning cartoon battles with a subplot of half-alien boy bonding with his single Father and the other people in his town. It's worth a watch, just don't ever look to tumblr or the fandom ever because it's cancer.

Agreed. DESU it's pretty anti-extremist in general and has a pretty neutral tone- Be yourself, your family is important, you can't change people unless they want to change themselves, etc.

Even the episode with the Traditionalist Uncle was about not thinking he's a jerk and just realizing people are afraid of change.

Which is weird because it's based in a new england beach town iirc.

They mean it has lots of bright pastels, everyone looks like tumblr took an 80s glitter shit, and there's a lot of Hipster character designs.

It's the modern version of 80s glam cartoons

>Holy shit, I agree with /pol/ for once? What sorcery is this?
/pol/ is always right for the wrong reasons. It's a lot about context.

You're not wrong.

>it's Rhetoric that smashes everything the fanbase stands for, and makes it highly appealing.

It's interesting because last year they had a big thing where Tumblr went full tumblr and harassed a girl so bad she attempted suicide for drawing one of the Thicc gems as slightly skinnier than the normal art style and the creative minds behind SU I think got an idea of just how crazy some of the SJW tumblr shit is.

There's a reason there's a lot more Greg this season.

It was for /pol/ , of cours eit's retarded

Sorry, but I'm not a racist piece of trash who believes that the Jews are the root of all evil. I only voted for Trump because he was honestly the lesser evil than Hillary, originally I had hope for Ben Carson to have the nomination.

Also I'm not a luddite who thinks Climate Change is a myth (though the level of exaggeration and fearmongering the Left makes over it is bullcrap and generally a means of begging for support and money).

Further I'm an ethnic mutt, and a member of a non-Nicene compliant heretical denomination, so I'm pretty sure that even if I were a /pol/lack, they sure as heck wouldn't accept me.

I'll stay away from /pol/ and stick to being just a myself

That's not all, if I recall correctly Tumblr bullied a staff member off Twitter as well, and i think there was another person they almost pushed to suicide but I'm not as sure about that one.

>or the fandom ever because it's cancer.
Isn't that true to basically any fandom?
>and a member of a non-Nicene compliant heretical denomination
Leave and never come back, you fucking heretic.

Definitely. It's like how /pol/ will criticize SJWs for identity politics, while they do the exact same shit. The in-group vs out-group mentality is endemic to all kinds of extremist worldview.

IIRC it was one of the artists, who made a big psot about how they don't care -how- people draw the gems, because the entire show is about how you should be comfortable as yourself.

Which promptly got everyone death threats and tumblrrage.

>i think there was another person they almost pushed to suicide
I dunno if they pushed a second person, the first was some poor 15 year old girl.

>Isn't that true to basically any fandom?
It's particularly virulent because a lot of the SJW identity-politic underbelly got swept in- gives them something to post to show how their special snowflake gender needs to be upheld by society.

>The in-group vs out-group mentality is endemic to all kinds of extremist worldview.
pretty much this.
I go on /pol/ and it's nice to have a place where contrarian views can be aired but fuck if I believe half the shit they post.

Wat's wrong, butthurt over religious freedom and separation of church and state?
Upset that your specific denomination isn't accepted by everyone?
The Great Awakening and other religious revival movements get you booty bothered?

>Isn't that true to basically any fandom?
No, son. The Steven Universe fandom is a special kind of cancer. It's been voted on multiple occasions to be the single most toxic fandom known today.

The thing we for get is that /pol/acks, for as much shit as we give them, are still very capable of being grounded and making accurate social and philosophical observations when they're not shitposting, memeing, or stuffing their heads up their own asses.

Also, he brings up a good point that I never actually thought about, which is how fucked up Steven would be if he only had one parent and it wasn't Greg.

>Pearl- resentful and bitter with all of her crippling and dysfunctional insecurities latching on to the first person to show a little kindness
>Amythest-An irresponsible manchild always chasing the next thrill and never understanding why he can't maintain relationships with actual adults
>Garnet- An on the surface picture-perfect child, who constantly pushes himself in the hopes of eliciting A gesture more affectionate than a stoic nod of approval who deeply resents what he feels is a lack of trust and faith from his parent-Litterally fucking Horus.

>The Great Awakening and other religious revival movements get you booty bothered?
>Implying the second and third Great Awakening didn't turn protestantism in a borderline parody of itself.
>It's been voted on multiple occasions to be the single most toxic fandom known today.
Really? By who? Genuinely curious, especially because places like /co/ would just name the largest fanbase there, which I assume is the SU one.

>Bullies fan artists to attempted suicide
>Harrasses staff members
>Got so bad that for possibly the first time ever, the creators of the show directly intervened and asked the fandom to chill the fuck out and stop being such shitcunts

I'll never not find it hilarious how triggered Veeky Forums gets over steven universe.

the way some of you guys get over a cartoon make it seem like the creator of it killed your parents in front of you and made you dig the graves

>he hasn't read the thread
>he doesn't know the reaction on these threads in Veeky Forums is generally "better than I had expected"

>which is how fucked up Steven would be if he only had one parent and it wasn't Greg.
There's a growing amount of evidence that single parents are the worst environment for a kid. Mostly because there's more single parents.

However, statistically it doesn't matter what gender they are or who they are, just that there's more than one and that the other parents be stable and available- There's a reason family groups are stronger whent he grandparents are around and there's statistical evidence grandparents and kids living in the same home increases both of their happiness and longevity.

>Really? By who? Genuinely curious, especially because places like /co/ would just name the largest fanbase there, which I assume is the SU one.
Tumblr got so toxic the creators actually had to come down and tell people that fanart can look however the fuck they want.

Then tumblr send the creators death threats and shitposts until one of them quit social media over it.

Most of them women the poster is talking about are, though.

to be fair, the reason he is childish and his powers are wonky are probably because he is still a child learning how to use his powers.

I'm all of things except the 'heretical denomination' aspect (full on Atheist), yet I still go there without flipping out. Do I agree with everything they say? No, but I think a lot of the core messages, the freedom of speech and thought angles, wanting to keep the west from collapsing through various idiot policies, anti-oligarchic rhetoric, and culture, racial, and national pride, are essentially benign and positive things. That it's buried under the muh jews muh christianity muh fuck women and gays bits is just unfortunate.

/co/ you can visit but please don't bring furries

I was assuming there was an actual poll or something like that, but I see now why the fanbase would be so hated.

>implying they weren't here already
Someone has never been to a dragon thread or beastmen thread on Veeky Forums

But they're rocks with eyes

Sorta true, sorta not true. Two parent homes are universally better than single parent ones, but it turns out that lesbian couples are generally worse than gay couples are generally worse than straight ones, at raising kids. Draw your own conclusions for why that is, but they're not statically identical.

Though yes, you're also correct that kids raised with living grandparents as well as two parents tend to turn out even better.

So golems?

That's a special kind of depressing.

Intelligent golems who's body consists of a mid sized gemstone, but it manifests a hard light humanoid pseudo body around itself. This pseudo body can take enough damage to be temporarily destroyed, referred to in the show as "poofing" the gem, but then it just takes some time to regenerate and manifests its pseudo body again. They can be killed permanently by shattering their true gem body.

>They can be killed permanently by shattering their true gem body.
You can also use the shards to create a sentient planet-cracking bomb.

Which manifests a planet-sized pseudobody that's eldritch abomination levels of fucked up in anatomy, if I understand the Cluster correctly.

That was basically a massive cluster of shards trying to combine and make their minds whole, and achieve physical form again.

The hard-light body of a giant cluster combined with the fact that it would have been an insane horror would have destroyed the earth.

>tfw you will never power snuggle with your harem of Quartzes
>tfw you will never nestle your face in their floofy hair
All I want is the Snu-Snu! Is that so wrong?

Played right and with a more serious flavor, I think Gems could actually make a decent playable race in a Spelljammer type setting. Given all Gem adventurers would have to be either rebels who've found individuality or Gem Empire agents with an abnormal amount of free reign and a specific mission to accomplish for the Empire.

the main reason the BETA are able to do that is through a combination of sheer numbers, and the fact that the Laser class are able to neutralize Humanity's best way to fight them

Hey, anyone else notice how androgenous most of the people in the Zoo were?
I did, and I had some theories, but they weren't really solidified until the Choosening happened, when it solidified for me.

Now, since they were in that zoo, and judging from the way they were being kept, we can assuredly say that those humans were domesticated, right? And the Choosening is basically the Gems deciding which ones should mate.

Now then, as most people know, most breeds of domestic animals that humans have are such breeds due to years of selective breeding for specific traits that are viewed as desirable. Given that the Gems are selecting which humans are allowed to breed and with whom, I don't think its too far of a stretch to say that the Gems have actually en selectively breeding the Humans in the Zoo for particular traits that are aesthetically pleasing to them, hence the effeminate/androgenous features, which themselves reflect the types of physical features the Gems themselves possess.

In other words, the Humans in the Zoo have been selectively bred for ages (possibly since roughly after the stone-age) to appeal to the Gems' aesthetic of beauty in some large millennia long eugenics program! The Humans in the Zoo are effectively the Pugs of Humanity!

I guess that would explain why they seem to have cleft palates. What's with the fucking :3 faces everywhere?