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Rhyno posted:Edit: Ebay discount code goes live later today. 15% off any purchase PREPSPRING Code is live.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Now that's just Smyths, obviously the secret to solvency is really ugly stores. Or closing on Sundays, for the other big UK retailer that's still around...
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Mar 27, 2018 20:34
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Marmaduke! posted:Or closing on Sundays, for the other big UK retailer that's still around... The UK is weird.
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Mar 27, 2018 20:47
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TheDK posted:Oh poo poo MP Rodimus re-issue in the works?! Reissuing the worst MP mold ever is a bold strategy, Cotton. They'd have to do some insane retooling and fixing to make that piece of poo poo worth a double dip.
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Mar 27, 2018 21:09
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Keldroc posted:Reissuing the worst MP mold ever is a bold strategy, Cotton. Oh come the gently caress on. You don't get to say that when MP-5 exists.
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Mar 27, 2018 21:10
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Arquinsiel posted:If I've learned anything from my recent regular visits to the UK outside of London, it's that poo poo closes way too early and doesn't even open on Sundays. yeah, most shops have reduced hours on Sundays, but on Easter Sunday about 95% of shops won't open at all
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Mar 27, 2018 21:13
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A little complex transformation porn courtesy of Kevin Liu's review of Studio Series Blackout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAZ3Ls6Wg44 TaurusOxford posted:Oh come the gently caress on. You don't get to say that when MP-5 exists. I'll take MP-5 over Rodimus any day, because MP-5 was about as good as could be done at the time, and aged horribly, while Rodimus is riddled with issues that have no excuse whatsoever. You can't even transform it into space Winnebago mode without scratching paint off the loving spoiler. It's a garbage figure full of completely solvable and unnecessary flaws, and the only one they seem to have fixed for this reissue is the knee problem, which was already fixed in the second shipment. Rodimus needs a ground-up redesigned new mold just as badly as Megatron did.
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Mar 27, 2018 21:20
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Any place that doesn't open on Sundays is automatically Cool and Good because retail workers deserve weekends just like the rest of us.
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Mar 27, 2018 21:21
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In Ontario, eh, liquor stores close at 6ish on sundays. In a move best described as pandering, the provincial government legalized the sale of alcohol in grocery stores. But you're not allowed to buy it after 6pm. So there's brightly lit liquor sections just sitting there but you can't have none. PSX exclusive? Great. How about you ship vaguely on time? No? Sigh.
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Mar 27, 2018 21:26
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History Comes Inside! posted:Any place that doesn't open on Sundays is automatically Cool and Good because retail workers deserve weekends just like the rest of us.
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Mar 27, 2018 21:38
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:yeah, most shops have reduced hours on Sundays, but on Easter Sunday about 95% of shops won't open at all
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Mar 27, 2018 21:44
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Captain Invictus posted:Or they could have more employees with different shifts that they have agreed upon beforehand. Like tuesday-saturday weeks and such. Having worked retail extensively (8 years) before getting a big boy job, any kind of "standard 5 day week and 2 days off all in a row" shift pattern is absolutely the incredibly unlikely exception rather than the rule. And this was back before the 0 hour contracts fad came in here in the U.K. and companies started openly making GBS threads on their staff rather than just quietly behind closed doors. You tend to find full time staff get posted up to whatever combination of 5 out of the 7 days the store is forecast to be busiest and it's your part timers that get fixed days off because they have other commitments they're working around. Hope you like getting one day off at a time for possibly months at a time! If you're lucky enough to get two in a row you're probably staring down the barrel of 6-10 days in-a-row suicide schedules, since they can start your week on say Wednesday-Sunday then immediately roll your next week as Monday-Friday. Working retail is dogshit and I have Many Opinions about it.
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Mar 27, 2018 21:54
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Welp https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/978736360440979456
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Mar 27, 2018 21:56
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Arquinsiel posted:In Guildford even McDonalds closes at 6PM on every day except Thursday, when it stays open until the ungodly hour of... 8PM. well that's Guildford for you. And as for that schedule from Roberts, that's 24 Transformers comics coming out between now and the end of September 
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Mar 27, 2018 21:59
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:well that's Guildford for you. And as for that schedule from Roberts, that's 24 Transformers comics coming out between now and the end of September He says it'll end with #25, not that they're going to put out every issue between now and #25 Timeskips 
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History Comes Inside! posted:He says it'll end with #25, not that they're going to put out every issue between now and #25 I know you're joking but I also know that this will actually happen as well
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Mar 27, 2018 22:15
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History Comes Inside! posted:Having worked retail extensively (8 years) before getting a big boy job, any kind of "standard 5 day week and 2 days off all in a row" shift pattern is absolutely the incredibly unlikely exception rather than the rule. And this was back before the 0 hour contracts fad came in here in the U.K. and companies started openly making GBS threads on their staff rather than just quietly behind closed doors. I worked retail for 13 years and not having two consecutive days off was probably about 185th on my list of complaints.
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Mar 27, 2018 22:23
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So do they ever find the Knights of Cybertron?
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Keldroc posted:I worked retail for 13 years and not having two consecutive days off was probably about 185th on my list of complaints. Oh yeah there's tons of terrible things about it don't get me wrong, lack of weekends is admittedly just the tip of an enormous lovely iceberg.
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Gammatron 64 posted:So do they ever find the Knights of Cybertron? they've found "cyberutopia", or rather Getaway has. And according to the map, the knights are nearby, but their intentions are unclear
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Mar 27, 2018 22:27
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The Knights of Cybertron were in us the whole time. I’m not looking forward to Germany where every shop is closed on Sundays. Restaurants are open, but not even the small convenience stores are open. It’s Sunday morning and you forgot to get milk yesterday? TOO BAD! Now you wait till Monday!
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Mar 27, 2018 22:41
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Seconding the whole having to fix more than just MP Rodimus' knees. Everything about it was bad. Couldn't even hold his drat gun!
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Mar 27, 2018 23:27
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What do you people want from the new comics I want hardcore loving
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Mar 28, 2018 03:41
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:What do you people want from the new comics That's what you want from everything though
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Mar 28, 2018 04:05
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I want even gayer robots.
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Mar 28, 2018 04:11
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James Roberts mythology ideas and a comic but James has an editor who will say no to him sometimes
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Mar 28, 2018 04:23
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Arquinsiel posted:In Guildford even McDonalds closes at 6PM on every day except Thursday, when it stays open until the ungodly hour of... 8PM. Must be nice over there. BENGHAZI 2 posted:What do you people want from the new comics I would like to revisit the war. I feel there are many unique angles to consider. Anway, I did this:  His back is a bit more filled out, it doesn't look so much like he's wearing JNCO jeans. There's no gaps. Flywheels can Master Blaster on his back. Sturdy enough to pick up and pose a bit, though it's not locked into place. I keep fiddling with it, there's a lot of different ways you can keep it on there and still display well.
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Rhyno posted:I want even gayer robots. I want them to take away all the obvious feminine robots then about 10 issues in they arbitrarily reveal 3/4 of the cast to actually be ladybots and then introduce a big group of ultra feminine twink manbots. Then I want the previews posted exclusively on tfw so the salt is easier to mine. Alternatively I'd take "no boring human story poo poo unless they're just wordless background figures to giant robots smashing eachother" but if they're really doing the Hasbroverse I'm pretty sure my wish won't come true.
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Mar 28, 2018 06:14
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Humans are the worst, you'd think Hasbro would know that by now.
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Mar 28, 2018 06:43
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They tried to do Beast Wars comics before though They failed miserably but they DID try
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More human characters. All the human characters. An essential element of TFs is that they're "robots in disguise". The clash between humans and alien shapeshifting robots needs to at least be a plot element at some point. Without that the fact they're shape changing robots is just incidental or at worst just window dressing. You can do it in ways like Beast Wars with the beast modes being essential for some aspect of their mission (and making them animated and as full of personality as the robot forms) or with the spiritual aspect used by Beast Machines, but that's not really the sort of thing you can repeat.
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On the topic of humans I hope we see a version of the Sumdac family in the new continuity
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https://twitter.com/tfw2005/status/978669504317218817?s=19 holy moley lookat that prime!
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Clean as heck if you follow the links. Related: https://twitter.com/RedlineSSB/status/978894127755558912?s=19
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That is a really nice Prime. I think Legends is my new poo poo now that I've "finished" with MPs. Gonna see how he stacks up to THS' Prime before I commit to one though. Really tiny bots or really loving huge bots, no half measures. Also the last NBK Constructicon arrived and I am ok with it as a display bot but holy moly what a floppy piece of poo poo the pelvis is on the combined mode. The gun that's supposed to plug in the back and hold it together isn't going to fit unless I cut the barrel off, so I'll probably do that. Hands need some serious polishing too to stiffen them up enough to hold the crane jib. Nodosaur posted:More human characters. All the human characters. They can still be in disguise, in fact being disguised is how they should avoid interacting with humans at all. Humans in modern TF fiction in all its formats are the worst parts of the fiction. The only interesting thing directly interacting with humans gave us is IDW Thundercracker, and even that wasn't worth reading through anything at all involving Verity Carlo/Garrison Blackrock/any of the IDW Witwicky family/insert any other human character you want in here because they are all boring as gently caress and pointless time wasters when there's a 40' tall robot who turns into a jet or a truck or a tank or a salad shooter that I could be reading about instead. History Comes Inside! fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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The Autobots/Decepticons arrive on Earth and find the ruins of human civilization, laid waste by the ravages of climate change. They gravely note the desolation before moving on
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Captain Invictus posted:Lemme see what he looks like from the back before passing judgement
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History Comes Inside! posted:They can still be in disguise, in fact being disguised is how they should avoid interacting with humans at all. It would be nice if they could keep up the "disguise" part for longer... what got me started with the IDW comics was Infiltration, in which Prowl's team actually tried to maintain cover and Starscream's team... also did I guess?
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