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I always thought the Megas XLR intro theme accurately summarized the underlying theme of all giant robot media.
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Nov 30, 2016 09:50
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chiasaur11 posted:Depends on the series. I'm pretty sure space still makes everyone retarded in both of those shows. It's just not as obvious. Think about iiiiiiiiit. Zanzibar Ham posted:I always thought the Megas XLR intro theme accurately summarized the underlying theme of all giant robot media. There's a lot of underlying themes okay? It's like a lasagna.
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Nov 30, 2016 13:51
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TheLastRoboKy posted:There's a lot of underlying themes okay? It's like a lasagna. Well, I do dig lasagna...
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Nov 30, 2016 14:00
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chiasaur11 posted:Depends on the series. Don't forget that in G-Gundam, Love is highly weaponizable. TheLastRoboKy posted:I'm pretty sure space still makes everyone retarded in both of those shows. It's just not as obvious. Think about iiiiiiiiit. Please allow me to provide a helpful visual aid. 
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Nov 30, 2016 16:12
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Kurieg posted:Please allow me to provide a helpful visual aid. Is that from Mobile Fighter G Gundam? 'Cos I've just started watching it, and this does seem like the sort of thing the show would pull.
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Nov 30, 2016 19:50
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Kurieg posted:Please allow me to provide a helpful visual aid. What does Neo New Mexico look like?
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Nov 30, 2016 20:15
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White Coke posted:What does Neo New Mexico look like? 
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Nov 30, 2016 20:19
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CommissarMega posted:Is that from Mobile Fighter G Gundam? 'Cos I've just started watching it, and this does seem like the sort of thing the show would pull. Yup, G-Gundam is basically an object lesson in casual Japanese racism. In that they do it to everyone equally (Except maybe themselves) and not even the people who live in the stereotyped nations realize that anything is wrong with something like this.   It's like if in addition to being in tune with nature and having a monkey pet, Ma-Ti also had a giant mech made out of step pyramids. White Coke posted:What does Neo New Mexico look like? It's somewhere in here  probably to the left past the casinos.
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Nov 30, 2016 20:21
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To be fair, the zebra pauldron-toga is pretty appealing.
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Nov 30, 2016 20:29
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Kurieg posted:Yup, G-Gundam is basically an object lesson in casual Japanese racism. In that they do it to everyone equally (Except maybe themselves) and not even the people who live in the stereotyped nations realize that anything is wrong with something like this.  I think the Netherlands gundam is a better example
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Nov 30, 2016 21:08
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I love how the Nobel Gundam makes absolutely no sense as being representative in any way of Neo-Sweeden. Then you remember that it's a Berserker.
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Nov 30, 2016 21:15
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Calax posted:
Suddenly Don Quixote doesn't seem so crazy.
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Nov 30, 2016 21:17
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well he does, it's just for an entirely different and substantially more badass reason i mean i dunno about you but i'd probably shy away from charging that thing with an old horse and a loud yell
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Nov 30, 2016 21:23
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Coolguye posted:well he does, it's just for an entirely different and substantially more badass reason Actually, an old horse and a loud yell could probably wreck this thing. Its whole gimmick is that it sucks so much,they made the windmill transformation so the Gundam could get to the semi-finals or whatever by being a huge coward.
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Nov 30, 2016 21:33
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Zanzibar Ham posted:I always thought the Megas XLR intro theme accurately summarized the underlying theme of all giant robot media. Let's cut out the middleman and just do a MEGAS XLR game, then
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Nov 30, 2016 21:49
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while we're at it, let's get another few seasons of megas xlr
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Nov 30, 2016 21:50
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Did they already kill the Toonami revival or is that still going?
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Nov 30, 2016 23:14
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Orv posted:Did they already kill the Toonami revival or is that still going? Still going.
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Dec 1, 2016 00:55
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that's another show i need to organize just a night of beer and fun for like just spend an evening streaming Megas and encouraging people to get wild in chat i guess synctube is what people use for that sort of thing? i know twitch would kick your rear end off in a blink.
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Dec 1, 2016 01:46
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Kurieg posted:Yup, G-Gundam is basically an object lesson in casual Japanese racism. In that they do it to everyone equally (Except maybe themselves) and not even the people who live in the stereotyped nations realize that anything is wrong with something like this. Japan's Gundam is a samurai, and after realizing that all Gundams look kinda like samurai so it doesn't stand out so much, they gave Germany a ninja, and made Sweden Sailor V. America gets a cowboy football surfer piloted by a boxer from the mean streets of New York. He loves fighting for the common man, having his mechanics be hot cheerleaders, and the song America The Beautiful. He hates clowns. This is because his mother was murdered by terrorist clowns. G-Gundam is art.
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Dec 1, 2016 04:42
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chiasaur11 posted:Japan's Gundam is a samurai, and after realizing that all Gundams look kinda like samurai so it doesn't stand out so much, they gave Germany a ninja, and made Sweden Sailor V. G Gundam is a beautiful slab of cheesy nonsense. 
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Dec 1, 2016 05:00
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AradoBalanga posted:You forgot the best part about Chibodee Crockett: "America the Beautiful" was sung by his mother as a lullaby to put him to sleep as a baby. You guys are just going to gloss over the fact that a horse pilots a Horse Gundam in that series, or what? Any question that you have about G Gundam can be answered with, "there's a horse piloting its own Gundam" I can't remember if there's multiple horses or if one horse pilots multiple Gundams, but there is at least one equine pilot and one equine Gundam
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Dec 1, 2016 05:24
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The Door Frame posted:You guys are just going to gloss over the fact that a horse pilots a Horse Gundam in that series, or what? Any question that you have about G Gundam can be answered with, "there's a horse piloting its own Gundam"
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Dec 1, 2016 05:31
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AradoBalanga posted:Fuunsaiki is more akin to Optimus' trailer than a separate Gundam. It's just that unlike Optimus' trailer, it does have an actual horse (of the same name) piloting it instead of being a glorified weapons platform. The horse is also a master martial artist.
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Dec 1, 2016 05:32
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Coolguye posted:that's another show i need to organize just a night of beer and fun for I have seen cytu.be work well.
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Dec 1, 2016 05:33
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AradoBalanga posted:Fuunsaiki is more akin to Optimus' trailer than a separate Gundam. It's just that unlike Optimus' trailer, it does have an actual horse (of the same name) piloting it instead of being a glorified weapons platform. Is he or is he not in control of a 100 ft tall robot horse? Because I remember him being in control of a Gundam Horse, he gets a suit and everything Also this: chiasaur11 posted:The horse is also a master martial artist.
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Dec 1, 2016 05:37
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The Door Frame posted:Is he or is he not in control of a 100 ft tall robot horse? Because I remember him being in control of a Gundam Horse, he gets a suit and everything
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Dec 1, 2016 05:49
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So it's an improvement over Old New Mexico then.
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Dec 1, 2016 06:23
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 Episode 5 - Youtube | Polsy New characters and lore added to their respective sections I cannot stress enough how Grimlock has the best dialogue in the game. Every single line just knocks it out of the park.
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Dec 1, 2016 07:46
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OH GOD I'M WATCHING IT AGAIN SEND HELP I'M DYING
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Dec 1, 2016 08:33
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I beat everything in the game with Grimlock and the drills, except the weird Starscream fight (you know the one). His base stats are so high and his infinite firebreath is stupidly overpowered. Sure he has weapon restrictions, but they don't negatively impact his ability to clown every encounter in the gameAradoBalanga posted:He is indeed. The problem is that Fuunsaiki doesn't get a whole lot of solo time and is mostly around so Master Gundam or God Gundam can ride him into battle (and be a second HP bar in SRW games), hence the comparison to Optimus' trailer. I rest my case. Sure he's not a tournament competitor or anything, but the concept of a horse pilot is so obnoxiously dumb that I cannot properly articulate how funny I find it
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Dec 1, 2016 08:52
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Blitzwing is kind of a joke on Normal in this first encounter. Blitzwing is a loving BEAST in the later difficulties. He has absurd super armor. And that face grab Grimlock does? Blitzwing can do it do. On Prime and Magnus fighting Blitzwing is an endless hit and run battle where you beat through his super armor while he gives no fucks and scrapes your face upon the gravel. I can guarantee that he is the most difficult boss I ever fought in this game.
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Dec 1, 2016 10:06
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Okay, this needs to be a maximum Grimlock percent run. Everything about that was amazing.
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Dec 1, 2016 10:44
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I think
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Dec 1, 2016 10:45
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That entire episode is magical.
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Dec 1, 2016 10:54
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I learned about Thundercracker's love of soaps from the BSS Funny Panels thread3 posted:Also in the IDW Transformers continuity, Thundercracker is a colossal dork with a cute dog and atrocious screenwriting chops who's decided to live on Earth because he was never 100% into the war and fell in love with human culture (soap operas in particular). ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:In the Christmas special, he makes a character called Anna Log, who is an analogue of one of his human handlers. And as I said, he tried to write a christmas story and... IDW Transformers regularly appear in that thread. Here's my favorite time they did: ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Nightbeat doing Nightbeat things
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Dec 1, 2016 11:43
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IDW Thundercracker is awesome. Stay tuned for his screenplay of the story of Susan Journeyer and Josh Boyfriend. Pretty sure that the Energon being purple instead of red in the cutscene is a deliberate nod to the occasional colouring screwups in the G1 cartoons (which iirc is why we end up with a bunch of seeker variations outside the named ones). I know in some continuities Grimlock is actually pretty smart, there's just a glitch in his vocal processors which makes him sound like a big, dumb brute. He refuses to get it fixed because it makes his enemies underestimate him.
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Dec 1, 2016 12:00
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Really, it's just our crude biases which makes us judge the things he does as "dumb." Things like attempting to eat things that are clearly not food, just in case. You don't know! It might be different this time!
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Dec 1, 2016 17:27
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This thread is like a glorious cavalcade of distilled off-the-wall crazy stupid things. Immediately relevant, Grimlock's vehicle mode is a loving dinosaur. That alone brings so many questions. How? Why? What kind of disguise does he think that is? Did he decide to replicate an animatronic dinosaur at a museum? Where did he get his penchant for wrestling moves? How does he fit a dinosaur around his person form? Why does he ever use his person form? What is the top speed of a brutal wrestling animatronic dinosaur anyway? And then there's all the off-camera stupidity, the backissues and wikipages, a medic robot that turns into a single leg, a robot conscientious objector with a pet dog and a love of soap operas, and even the giant robot world outside transformers, where Space Mexico is a cactus sombrero, and there is even a giant Gundam Horse piloted by a horse what the gently caress
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Dec 1, 2016 17:43
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TheDarkFlame posted:This thread is like a glorious cavalcade of distilled off-the-wall crazy stupid things. Immediately relevant, Grimlock's vehicle mode is a loving dinosaur. That alone brings so many questions. How? Why? What kind of disguise does he think that is? Did he decide to replicate an animatronic dinosaur at a museum? Where did he get his penchant for wrestling moves? How does he fit a dinosaur around his person form? Why does he ever use his person form? What is the top speed of a brutal wrestling animatronic dinosaur anyway? There is a very simple reason he uses his person form: IT HAS A FLAMING SWORD. Keep in mind, the universe has only gotten more glorious and crazy under the IDW helm, while simultaneously making more sense. That's the hilarious part about this... for all we're talking that it's silly, and weird, and hosed up, the most recent incarnations have actually done a good job in context, for the most part, of tying most of this crap together in a sensible package. For example, why is Grimlock a dinosaur in IDW continuity? Because he turned up to Earth during the Ice Age, looked at the Mammoths and mammals, and said "gently caress this, where's the good combat forms for loving up that rear end in a top hat Shockwave who ruined our plans to get the gently caress away from Cybertron? Also, we need to cover ourselves with a fake skin so we don't energon overload from whatever the gently caress Shockwave's doing to this planet (Seeding it with rich Energon)" Compare that to the Marvel/G1 continuity. There's a good reason Megas XLR had so much material to work with, and that's because SatAm cartoons and Mecha media have always been that much sillier. 
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