Anonymouswizard's Random Banter #227 and Free Cup of Tea

[factotum]

51 last month for me. Or as a friend put it. By any realistic measure I'm much closer to my death than my birth.....

Hey, don't be a pessimist--the oldest people in the world hit 120, you might be one of them! Although Lord knows what the world of 2089 is going to be like...

[SZbNAhL]

I'm so much older than y'all it's not even funny. But I didn't truly feel old until we started to get OotS readers that are younger than the comic.

Grey Wolf

Don't be silly, anyone born in 2003 would still be a tiny child of ... 17. The age I joined the playground at.

...

I'm the second or third youngest person here, how the heck am I feeling old?

[tomandtish]

Hey, don't be a pessimist--the oldest people in the world hit 120, you might be one of them! Although Lord knows what the world of 2089 is going to be like...

Actually, with one cancer exception my family dies pretty consistently at 95. 7 of my great grandparents and 2 of my grandparents died at that age (1 is still alive at 95 this year and one was the cancer death at 87). I'm the first diabetic though, so my odds are lower.

[LaZodiac]

That reminds me, did you see/hear the Bee in the City script-reading from Botcon 2008?

Sari, Optimus, and Bumblebee end up stranded in the Trasntech timeline when one of professor Sumdac's inventions goes horribly wrong. Bee is let go but the others are detained.

Bee goes around the city and eventually runs into a purple T-Rex, Yess, who agrees to help Bee save his friends after finding out about the All-Spark Key...

...and verifying that Bee doesn't know what a Predacon is.

I actually hadn't seen that, no. Sounds fascinating

All this is doing is reminding me I need to get into The Lost Light...

[el minster]

Don't be silly, anyone born in 2003 would still be a tiny child of ... 17. The age I joined the playground at.

...

I'm the second or third youngest person here, how the heck am I feeling old?

I'm younger than you.

[Rater202]

I actually hadn't seen that, no. Sounds fascinating

All this is doing is reminding me I need to get into The Lost Light...

I will warn you that it's a comedy with quite a bit of metahumor.

Example: Bumblebee is asked if he's "a Bumblebee or a Hotshot" and is afterward mistakenly referred to by basically every kid-appeal transformer name.

[SZbNAhL]

I'm younger than you.

Hence "second or third youngest". You're younger than me and DataNinja may or may not be depending on exact birth month.

[el minster]

Hence "second or third youngest". You're younger than me and DataNinja may or may not be depending on exact birth month.

Yeah, but there are probably others.

[LaZodiac]

I will warn you that it's a comedy with quite a bit of metahumor.

Example: Bumblebee is asked if he's "a Bumblebee or a Hotshot" and is afterward mistakenly referred to by basically every kid-appeal transformer name.

Ultimately I'm not a BIG fan of overt meta jokes in stuff like this, but that sounds fun.

Especially because Bumblebee was the OG kid-appeal transformer. Mixing up this poor, expressive little bee boy for Hotshot, master of Dull Surprise, is a travesty.

[DataNinja]

Ultimately I'm not a BIG fan of overt meta jokes in stuff like this, but that sounds fun.

Especially because Bumblebee was the OG kid-appeal transformer. Mixing up this poor, expressive little bee boy for Hotshot, master of Dull Surprise, is a travesty.

Hey, some of us actually liked Armada, for what it's worth.
Nobody defending Energon, though, even if that's what I saw first.

[Anonymouswizard]

You're confusing me, the last transformer I've watched is the one that stopped my circuit from blowing up. 3/10. worked fine but no cool sparks.

[LaZodiac]

Hey, some of us actually liked Armada, for what it's worth.
Nobody defending Energon, though, even if that's what I saw first.

I don't hate Armada THAT much, I just... have a severe loathing for Kicker Jones.

Of the three Unicorn Trilogy shows RITS is still the best though. Sky-Bite is what everyone kinda wants Star Scream to be and it is amazing.

You're confusing me, the last transformer I've watched is the one that stopped my circuit from blowing up. 3/10. worked fine but no cool sparks.

Still better than like, 40% of the content for the franchise.

[Rater202]

Robots In Disguise had nothing to do with the Unicron Trilogy. The Sequel to Beast Machines fell through so they dubbed Car Robots, an anime based on some of the Japanese Transformers toys, into English while they tried to figure out what to do.

The Trilogy was Armada, Energon, and Cybertron(and Technically, Cybertron mostly took place in a parallel universe that got screwed over by Energon's fallout.)

Trivia, "Megatron" in the original Japanese had nothing to do with any version of Megatron and was given that name in English becuase one of his ten alt forms was a dragon and that's what the last Megatron turned into.

[Peelee]

IIRC, Transformers 2 opened with a Decepticon that could perfectly mimic a human in all respects. I never saw any other movie in the series, but I assume they took on tones similar to Terminator 2, in which any given human could potentially be a robot in disguise, since they clearly had the technology to do that.

[LaZodiac]

Robots In Disguise had nothing to do with the Unicron Trilogy. The Sequel to Beast Machines fell through so they dubbed Car Robots, an anime based on some of the Japanese Transformers toys, into English while they tried to figure out what to do.

The Trilogy was Armada, Energon, and Cybertron(and Technically, Cybertron mostly took place in a parallel universe that got screwed over by Energon's fallout.)

Trivia, "Megatron" in the original Japanese had nothing to do with any version of Megatron and was given that name in English becuase one of his ten alt forms was a dragon and that's what the last Megatron turned into.

In my defense, The Unicron Trilogy is ****ing weird I might have ended up conflating RID with it just out of hand.

[Anonymouswizard]

IIRC, Transformers 2 opened with a Decepticon that could perfectly mimic a human in all respects. I never saw any other movie in the series, but I assume they took on tones similar to Terminator 2, in which any given human could potentially be a robot in disguise, since they clearly had the technology to do that.

All I remember about the films is that in the third one the pointless love interested changed from one actress to another and I'm not sure if they ever established why pointless human #1 wasn't dating the first one anymore. Oh, and one giant robot punched another after being stabbed with magically reassembling sand.

[DataNinja]

I don't hate Armada THAT much, I just... have a severe loathing for Kicker Jones.

That was Energon, by the way. Armada was the one where Hot Shot actually got character development, and Starscream was the noble warrior archetype with a good character arc. ...and, yes, there were still a lot of issues. But I enjoyed it despite those.

[Rater202]

IIRC, Transformers 2 opened with a Decepticon that could perfectly mimic a human in all respects. I never saw any other movie in the series, but I assume they took on tones similar to Terminator 2, in which any given human could potentially be a robot in disguise, since they clearly had the technology to do that.

Not really. Never comes up again.

Which is weird because the potential had been there for a good long while.

In the G1 continuity family, we have Pretenders, Transformers that can wrap themselves in an organic shell to pretend to be something else, Headmaster's, Targetmasters, and Powermasters who are organic beings equipped with tech that lets them transform into technology that's compatible with Cybertronians(two are symbiotic and the third is basically the organic taking over an empty shell,) Micromasters who are energy-efficient human sized bots, and later on the Maximals and Predacons who are Autobots and Decepticons that are basically the perfection of Micromaster and Pretender Technology(human-sized bots that can disguise as organic life) who are further upgraded into the Transmetals(Robot outside, but organic parts inside, and both a beast mode and a vehicle mode--Tarantulas, for example, could go from Robot,to Giant Spider, to Spider-Cycle) Transmetal IIs,(Frankensteinian mismatches of machine and flesh in both forms and trading the vehicle abilities for supernatural powers,) and Techno-Organics(Tech and organics merged at the cellular level,) as well as the Mutants, an alternative to hybridization, who were fully organic cybertronians who shifted between two organic forms.

The Unicorn trilogy added Minicons, bots the size of human adolescents.

But the idea of Cybertronians disguised as humans was only used in one of the Bay movies, which wasted it, and in Animated, which was canceled before it could be properly explored.

...Should we just make Transformers thread?

[Peelee]

Not really. Never comes up again.

Oh, I was joking; I assumed they'd do nothing with that, since they did nothing with it in the movie that started with it, after all.

...Should we just make Transformers thread?

Sure seems like a fertile enough topic!

[The Fury]

...Should we just make Transformers thread?

May I bring my GoBots?

[Rater202]

May I bring my GoBots?

...Well, there are Go-Bots on the Transtech Cybertron, so... I guess. But they have to bring their own beer. The Open Bar is Cybertroninan only.

[DataNinja]

Sure seems like a fertile enough topic!

I mean, I feel like it'll just die down shortly. Everyone's just getting their raw emotions out right now.

[The Fury]

...Well, there are Go-Bots on the Transtech Cybertron, so... I guess. But they have to bring their own beer. The Open Bar is Cybertroninan only.

Yeah? Cool! I'll be real here, I actually know absolutely nothing about the GoBots lore, if there is any. I mainly know that Transformers G1 fans love to meme about them. Though I did have a Bug Bite toy when I was a kid... I think it was originally my cousin's?

[DataNinja]

Yeah? Cool! I'll be real here, I actually know absolutely nothing about the GoBots lore, if there is any. I mainly know that Transformers G1 fans love to meme about them. Though I did have a Bug Bite toy when I was a kid... I think it was originally my cousin's?

Well, conveniently, there is indeed someone who does basics on Transformers lore. Here's one of his April 1st videos on that very subject!
(I don't really keep up with Transformers any more, but I like keeping up with the guy's videos.)

[Anonymouswizard]

I've got a sudden urge to host a panel show, if only I had any actual talent.

[DataNinja]

I've got a sudden urge to host a panel show, if only I had any actual talent.

You want to show off fragments of comic strips? You do you, but I don't see how that'd be terribly engaging.

[Peelee]

You want to show off fragments of comic strips? You do you, but I don't see how that'd be terribly engaging.

Eh, could make do with SMBC.

[The Fury]

You want to show off fragments of comic strips? You do you, but I don't see how that'd be terribly engaging.

...I don't know, some comic panels removed from their original context are pretty funny.

Spoiler: ...Well I thought it was funny.

Show

[el minster]

...I don't know, some comic panels removed from their original context are pretty funny.

Spoiler: ...Well I thought it was funny.

Show

you are absolutely correct about that

[DataNinja]

Eh, could make do with SMBC.

That feels like cheating there.

...I don't know, some comic panels removed from their original context are pretty funny.

Spoiler: ...Well I thought it was funny.

Show

...alright, touché.