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The movie was pretty regal bling for its time. Orson Welles voiced Unicron. Leonard Nimoy was Galvatron and Eric Idle had a bit part. Judd Nelson was the RDJ of the time and taking on the relatively new role of Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime so the mass appeal was there for families across generations.
Personally I thought Robert Stack doing Ultra Magnus was awesome.
But the concepts were a bit too far into science fiction proper and younger minds at the time were wanting more pew pew and less reflections upon what it is to be a leader. They wanted "You've Got The Touch!" and for Starscream to betray Megatron at the last second (Again).
I think it's aged quite well and is probably a movie for men now to look back upon as oppose to the target audience of young boys seeing it for the first time.
But if we're talking making bank, it didn't work in the classic sense of having good returns at the time. The 2007 Michael Bay movie might have restarted the franchise but the OG crew who bought the toys and witnessed Grimlock becoming smart and sacrificing that for his creations have different memories of how it all started.
And that's before we bring Voltron, Gobots and Gatchaman into the mix to muddy the loyalties of certain children.
But the entire merch and fandom community probably started around that time and has only grown into a different beast now. Without any Atticus Finch's or Tex Avery's frameworks to guide young minds we have truly ended up with sexual deviants trying to ascribe perverted moral messages and failing at a ridiculous level.
But if this isn't your grandfather's [X], it certainly isn't anyone elses.
At the very end of the universe, just before everything collapses, there is an archive of everything conceived, whether it was applied or not, called Vanishing Point.
The head archivist is a machine-man hybrid, that man is Bruce Wayne.
While he is not God, he is the closest thing to it within the universe.
Ergo the only way Solid Snake could beat Batman would be if Batman wanted him to.
So it is feasible, but an empty victory.
#Gamergate may well be 11 years old this year, but 22 years ago the very same issues were being brought up and ignored by those with the most to lose from it. Let's not allow this corruption against consumers find its way to 33 years.
The market, and the finance futures associated with it, has only continued to grow exponentially since its inception. This is bigger than music, cinema and sports - make sure those reporting on it stick within their lane and report on the facts and not sell the products of the highest bidder to general audiences wanting information.
I remember when he was using Grindr as a gag for what republicans were up to in Milwaukee right after Butler in 2024.
If he can make fun of potentially repressed homosexual men you can be damn sure he'll throw straight women under the bus after it's slowly backed up while making beeping noises over his grandmother's cranium and whose neck he has under his jackboot.
At this point he's a domestic terrorist.
I'm all for comedy being edgy and pushing the boundaries but where was he when Biden was in full regalia?
And when it drops that all their 'Gen 2' lolipops are actually voiced by trannies and it turns out they are PDFs too the entire thing will vanish as if it was never a complaint.
It's the male feminist Russian Deadpool all over again, someone against misogyny who then murders one of his polygamous wives while on shrooms.
Where's Contrapoint on that?
That's right, laughing into his Cocoa Puffs bought from Patreons from Primary School teachers who can't figure out how to get laid.
iPhones Made Fully in the U.S. Could Cost $30,000, With Production Limited to a Few Million Units – Forbes
Then import them from Chyna with the tariffs and get them at a steal!
Granted, less of a steal than now but still much, MUCH cheaper than US made iPhones if your figures are correct.
Better yet, get off the Internet and leave it to us nerds, geeks and incels who don't need the latest filters to Snapchat our Fitbit rates to our followers with a wishlist on Amazon for our top donors to gift us.
Perhaps the parameters of the term 'prison' have to be tested here.
If someone is in jail they get free food, rent, healthcare and education - even though a court deemed them not worthy to be in the general law abiding population for a spell.
If someone is in the general law abiding population they have to pay for food, rent, healthcare and education.
If a capitalist starting out with nothing wanted to maximise their potential then going to jail would be the best way to get all the benefits from the system which would otherwise cost them time and money.
Their transformation from criminal into a healthy, fit and educated member of society came at expense to the taxpayer.
This is a direct copy from the socialist model only it solely benefits those found to be criminal enough to put in jail by the system.
If this was to be flipped then 'indentured labour' would be prison time and law abiding citizens could claim that they themselves are in a form of slavery and demand the same benefits.
And hear I always thought being called a virgin was the most devastating insult available only to the most cutting of rapier wits.
I guess all those 1980's movies weren't quite as highbrow as these intellectual juggernauts make them out to be.
The only good thing people like her have done is pull down all journalists to the level of shitty advertisers.
At least we can say there is equity in journalism these days.
I'll give it a go...
Women who hate transwomen are the real misogynists
Men are real bastards, but they are a well known problem and have been for years. But it's women, those who were born without male sexual reproductive parts, who really hate women. True women. A real women isn't defined by what's between her legs but by how she empowers herself and her sisters in society. Women don't try to put women down, they lift them up. Men will always be a problem, but it's one we - as women - can deal with. It's women who hate women who were born a little bit different who are the real enemy.
If you are a true woman, in your heart and in your head. You will stand with transwomen as REAL women and discount those women haters who think that being able to birth and breastfeed is all is takes to succeed in this life as your TRUE and BEST self.
Best I've got off the top of my head. It was either that or how dogs are really the cis-cats of this world and get underappreciated.
I hear you but remember before the Internet there was the printing press and publishers and those running them are always careful about what gets out and what doesn't.
So pretty much anything available in book form has to be scrutinised heavily because there will be bias in what is trying to be highlighted. So it gets grim and people on the Internet are just as trustworthy (Or the opposite) as anything you can actually touch with your own hands.
Archelogy, anthropology and economics seem to be good indicators across the different eras and don't contain opinion often because evidence and speculation upon it is all there is. Whatever the opinion of Jewish people is at any given moment in history you can state that they are resilient people and highly adaptive and yet insular wherever they go.
The archives of Alexandria being burned down are a good starting point if the Romans and their opinion of everything which came before them as a civilisation is your interest. Istanbul and the Silk Road also make for reasonable areas which contain more about what was established and fully operating before being snipped from history.
Pick a starting point and then extrapolate from there because it is a vast tapestry and there are no concrete answers. If biblical studies are your thing then Sumerian history and how that expanded into Europe and India might give you some background as to how important Judaism has been to what we consider to be culture.
But it's a lot and the Romans, while incredible important, only left us their history to take as THE history to go from.
There's a whole bunch of information to unpack, most of which is vague (At best), from around that time but it's clear that the Jews were connected to Egypt, Mesopotamia and Sumerian way back in the day.
Lots of early Greek philosophers studied Jewish monotheism, mathematics and concepts of ethics which drifted into the Roman culture via various schools of thought which eventually became the bible via Hebrew, then Greek and finally Latin before eventually being translated to English and other European languages (Shout out to localisation problems!).
The concept of the Torah always being a complete unaltered work has been challenged by many scholars over the years and some think is the basis for why the Quran sticks to its original unaltered form as any additions or retractions are political in nature and diminish the word of the divine.
So, either ask and expect a reasonable answer here or spend a decade or two trying to make sense of it and see if you can come up with an answer :)
You might be thinking of the Derek Vinyard version of The Hulk and not the feminist one.