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HE'S SUCH A CUTIE!

Perhaps I'm going to eat him =)

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Have an idea I actually wanna write down into a story for once in a long while

Now I just need to work up the motivation to actually write it

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Howdy. The Transformers anon again! Sorry for this being long, by the way.

"Also, what's with Sonic fans hating when bad guys is bad and the good guys is good?"

I wanted to chime in to say that the Transformers fandom is doing this too. They despise the Autobots being ACTUAL good guys, while praising whenever the story screws itself over to be sympathetic or offer Decepticons this nice ending. Even though they had already done SOO MANY INHIUMANE ATROCITIES AT THAT POINT! Megatron isn't allowed to be pure evil anymore. He's gotta be former best friends with Optimus before the war, and be all about fighting for the freedom and rights of his people and THEN turn into an evil tyrant after being power hungry! 1 of 5

Optimus Prime can't be the average guy who rose to be the Autobot leader, he's gotta have these super cool jobs like being a cop, a politician, a former deity, with a privileged lifestyle who HAPPENS to be all about freedom of others due to being admiring MEGATRON'S freedom fighting! Oh, and Optimus isn't allowed to be fun, or emotional, or humble, or even be an ACTUAL leader. He has to be super serious, have an existential crisis, or pragmatic that overshadows his kindness and humble nature once he's Prime. The before war stories of recent Transformers media ALWAYS have the government be autobot controlled and oppressed, that HAPPENS to become the good guys because the privileged WORKING CLASS Autobots took the mantle of stopping the now evil, FORMERLY OPPRESSED Decepticons. 2 of 5 Did all of that sound stupid to you? Good. It should. The plots are unnecessarily complicated and dumb because "grey morality" needs to be INJECTED into everything. Which isn't even ACTUAL grey morality, just the writer's (James Roberts) twisted, biased views on life wrapped in pretty (stupid) words. The butchering of the autobot characters by IDW is now what a good number of fans want like the Sonic fans. The constant favoritism for Decepticons and Megatron by the modern stories made me hate redemption arcs in the franchise now. And the public take of Decepticons themselves. Oh, and a lot of Earth is bland/sucks mentality that Sonic fans are having too. 3 of 5 Autobots CAN'T be the oppressed group who rises and become the good guys, and the Decepticons can't be the evil ruling group turned tyrants because that's too black and white! And "the world isn't good vs evil, it's all grey and complicated!" Yet these fans are confused as to why the casual audience aren't interested in the modern take of Transformers media. But ARE interested in the Skybound Transformers comic series. It's frustrating and dumb seeing these people not realizing they hate the very things that made their franchises fun and unique, while acting all surprise when it fails or further damages the brand! 4 of 5 I had to edit, because I went on about the three recent Transformers shows that were terrible. I also forgot to mention that the Transformers franchise is suffering from treating humans, outside the human allies, as an obligation and either puts them in the role of killing the Autobots after the war, being prejudice towards all Transformers or be removed from the Transformers stories all together. 5 of 5

Yeah personally for all its flaws, G1 is still pretty much the only piece of Transformers media that really appeals to me. The other branches of the franchise that basically rib entirely from G1 nostalgia being the close second, like Transformers One. And that's because G1 was the most pure, so to speak. It was something they were making up as they went along, and it didn't have all this importance on Optimus Prime's status as the jesus savior of the species and Megatron wasn't anything more than just an evil power hungry dictator. Its simplicity was part of its charm.

It's the same sort of problem that the Star Wars Prequels had in how they overinflated Darth Vader's importance. In the original movies, Darth Vader was JUST a branch of the Empire, and the Emperors right hand. He existed as part of a military chain of command. And he was dispatched on missions as simple as running down a rebel ship that had a stolen copy of their new superweapons design documents, and it wasn't seen as beneath him.

Then the Prequels happened, and suddenly Anakin Skywalker is the Chosen One who is prophecised to bring balance to the force, Palps manipulated the midichlorians to create him via immaculate conception and it's implied that part of his plan for ultimate power is grooming Anakin to becoming his apprentice. Darth Vader become this keystone around which the fate of the entire galaxy turns. And it just ends up making him a lot less interesting. And frankly given the backstory that the Prequels create, I find his eventual redemption and sacrificing himself to save his son in RotJ a lot less believable.

Modern storytelling has a real problem of aversion to simplicity. Everything needs to be explained, everyone needs to have a sympathetic backstory, all seemingly for the sake of filling out entries on a fucking fan wiki. We can't just have charismatic leaders who want to inspire hope or seize ultimate power anymore, they need to be jesus or a revolutionary oppressed gladiator, ect.

People seem to forget that these are childrens franchises meant to be commercials for toys. That is not a disparaging description, it's simple fact. A fact that needs to be embrace, not sheepishly downplayed and denied because insecure adults feel embarrassed about it and care more about being taken seriously by idiots rather than just being happy. Kids need simple easy to grasp concepts like good vs evil, if it gets too complicated or brutal it just starts to make them get bored or scared and want to stop watching. Kids like Optimus Prime because he's a patient and wise father figure, not because he's robot jesus. Kids like Megatron because he's a big bombastic entertaining bully, not because of his tragic backstory giving sympathetic motivation to his crusade. And kids like the human characters as a vessel for imagining that they too could be friends with these cool giant robots, NOT because they CARE about those humans as their own characters that the show should be centered around.

I think people need to go back to G1 not just for the aesthetics, but for the storytelling as well. From what I've read of the Skybound comics, they feel like they're able to capture the magic of what made the original show such a cultural icon, while also managing to utilize modern arc based story structure. It CAN be done, if people are willing to embrace the toy commercial instead of trying to turn this kids franchise into the fucking Silmarillion.

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Eggman was here. Mother Nature is a loser.🤖

Eggman is the type of guy who would make a really crass joke about how he would rape mother nature if he was straight, but since he isn't he's just going to mutilate her instead.

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azure kitty

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Btw according to Dr. Light's answers in Capcoms official self published magazine, Rock doesn't kill the robot masters he defeats. He ensures to preserve their cognitive circuit, so their body can be rebuilt later.

Presumably this cognitive circuit is what he is absorbing to acquire the Robot Masters weapon, and is the reason he loses all his weapons after every game. He can no longer use Metal Blade because he gave up Metal Man's cognitive circuit so that Metal Man could be rebuilt. Ect.

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I honestly don't understand people who say video games aren't art. Literally what else could they possibly be besides art?

"They're just games! (Derogatory i.e. children's toys ala Monopoly or Mouse Trap, obviously not referring to more complex adult board games like Scythe)"

But. Those. Are art though?

What else could they be besides art?

The suggestion is obviously that video games are "toys for children" or whatever and therefore can't be art because art is for hanging up in the Louvre for pretentious adults to interpret.

Except art for children exists? And video games have been featured in the Louvre??? And I'm a pretentious adult and I interpret video games all the time every day?????

Even if you thought video games were stupid and not worthy of taking seriously, that doesn't make them not art. It would just make them bad art. Which is still art.

The images in a trace and color book aren't suddenly Not Art just because they're for kids to color in. Bad art exists.

The suggestion that something doesn't get to qualify as art because it's primary demographic is children or because it is meant to be interacted with and derive amusement from doesn't make any fucking sense.

Why don't you just be honest and say "I hate video games" like a fucking adult instead of trying to legitimize your stupid prejudice by trying to argue that video games don't meet some arbitrary designation of what does and doesn't qualify as art, even though they obviously do.

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I am once again thinking about my old Twitter thread about how the term Maverick shifts in how it is used as a term of political oppression throughout the X era of the MegaMan series because I'm still very proud of it.

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-Memories-

Today is the 36th anniversary of Mega Man and the 30th anniversary of Mega Man X!

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I'd assume this was Auto if not for the yellow and brown part. Since Auto is yellow and green.

I've come across a strange little masterling, i've not actually been able to identify it yet! can you help me?

it's pretty cute, but... Unnerving. Rotund, has little red capsules around it's waist, yellow and brown armour with an adorable little face guard. I don't like the way it looks at me, though. It's almost as if it's anticipating something exciting at all times.

Hi!

Hmmm… I’m not sure what king of Masterling that could be! I’ll keep scouring my resources, but that description doesn’t seem familiar.

Thanks for the ask!

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"Looks like you need my help - again…"

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The final Wily rush! Once again quite a cinematic ending sequence compared to what came before, no? We don't have a cool little train ride credits sequence this time, but we do have a climactic post-final boss finale showing Megaman in mortal peril with the Wily castle collapsing down upon him. Wonder what power scalers would say about Rock being able to hold up an entire castle with his bare hands like that? Gotta be at least a Spider-Man Issue #33 tier feat, don't you think?

And in the end Protoman saves his little brother once again. Crazy how much Protoman has secured his status as an aloof ally ever since his humble debut don't you think? At this point his whistle theme has become iconic, and indicative of his presence even when he isn't directly on screen. You think Blues is starting to get annoyed at Rock making a habit of needing to be rescued at the end of these games? =P

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Protoman is being a bad boy and has a big evil castle this time! We gotta take our big brother down a peg!

OR SO IT WOULD APPEAR!!

Gotta love how that sequence of Darkman impersonating Protoman, where Rock approaches him and then back away seemingly hesitant to fight and then he instantly takes out all of Megamans health, only for the real Protoman to jump in save the day and drop a full heal. It's a very cinematic moment that conveys the story entirely through an in game scene, a bit of a first for the series. You can really see them sorta cutting their teeth on this before it starts being employed more fullest to flower in Megaman X.

Once again Wily turns out to be the man behind the man. "It'd be boring to just be Megaman vs Wily over and over again" said nobody ever. Thank fucking god the archie comics got fucking cancelled before they ever got even close to adapting this game, huh? Could you imagine how fucking awful this whole sequence would have been handled in those comics? Christ.

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fucking "Napalm man" x3

big "genocide city zone" vibes

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This game came out the year I was born! 1992. Interestingly enough the SNES had already released by this point, but it was early enough that companies were still producing games for the previous console still. And some could argue that the late stage NES games were much better than the earlier launch titles of the SNES, since devs had learned how to squeeze every last drop of blood out of the NES stone but were still learning the intricacies of the SNES. Funny how the more things change the more they stay the same huh?

This also marks the game where they move from 200X to 20XX because I guess they finally realized that having robots that shoot bees running around by the turn of the millennium just wasn't gonna happen.

Eight robot masters are causing havoc yet again, but this time Protoman gets a top billing feature! We even have a short but efficient scene of him kidnapping Dr. Light, and a very fancy title screen with the iconic protoman scarf on display. Intrigue! Mystery! It's almost enough to make you forget that Megaman X releases next year and then there'll officially be no reason to ever think about the classic series ever again because the X games are better in every way. (/jk)

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I feel like sonic and elise are like the nest couple in the franchise mostly because those two eat up trauma for breakfast because of there mental resilience

They are very cute together. Considering Sonic 2006 was originally intended to be seen as a soft reboot so to speak, I get strong vibes of Sonic and Madonna.

Tall human girl and dinky hedgy. In the end, they have to reset the timeline to erase the fact they ever met. It reads almost like a metanarrative about how Madonna was originally crafted to be Sonic's girlfriend but was cut during pre-production. They were lovers who's relationship was erased by the fates to have never existed in the first place.

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HE'S JUST LIKE ME FR FR HE'S SO FOXEH