Kevin Gibes / Kathryn Gibes / TransSalamander / RageTreb / The Green Salamander - "Am hole:" The epitomized Twitter MtF you thought was just a myth! Donate to his Transformers toy fund today!

[Monolith]

You fucking embarassment.

They're the robot when they're talking or fucking each other but they're the cars when they need to be in a car chase.

You think they rut like barnyard pigs, or chase each other with their clumsy robot feet? No!

I can't believe I have to explain this to you.

Considering https://old.reddit.com/r/carsfuckingdragons, anything is possible.

Edit: Wait they fucking banned it wtf

 

[AngryTreeRat]

Now, I have a question that I have refrained from asking because I know it’s probably stupid, but I really have to know: How does one know how to turn the Transformer into the car? I assume there’s instructions or something but do you just fold the body parts until it becomes the car??? And what is the appeal of this? Obviously they’re toys for children to play with, and adults like to collect transformers but what do you DO with them? As an adult, do you just put them on a shelf and flex on other people? I know that Kevin buys and hoards them to satiate his need for consumerism and to be a manchild, but I am asking about actual functioning members of society. Do you actually do the car to transformer thing when you’re bored? Do you put them in the Barbie dreamhouse to live a luxury life? I HAVE to know. Humbert Humbert is lacking in the this department.

They come with instructions, they also follow a certain logic you can learn and become capable of intuiting. The design is actually quite clever, a lot of the best transformers are considered those which can manage to have plenty of articulation as a robot, while hiding most signs of the robot while in vehicle form, especially if they have more than one and you can hide not only the robot, but the other vehicles.

Ask for what you do with them, typically with collective hobbies like this, you not only collect them for the purposes of having them, but you also set up dioramas with them. Often rearranging them out of whim and to either show different scenes, or to simply display your collection with an eye to aesthetics.

 

[BScCollateral]

And what is the appeal of this?

Hobbies are weird. By definition, they're kind of pointless and indefensible.
In The Posessed, Dostoyevsky mocks a character who builds models of theaters out of cardboard, yet at the same time the way they're described makes them sound like things you could easily imagine proudly displayed in museums. Dostoyevsky makes it clear this is how the character deals with frustrations in his life; but what's wrong with that? I'd much rather he built a cardboard theater instead of, say, getting drunk and beating up his wife.
I have hobbies too, and collections at least as useless as Kevin's Transformers (but not Transformers). I think the only real practical difference between me and Kevin is I don't have debts or a tugboat, and I can actually tell the story behind each item in my collection and why it appeals to me.
Somewhere between "This is a character from a film. I met the actor who played him at a convention and he told me..." and "Please send us money, and look at this $900 limited edition Transformer I bought" a line is crossed, but I don't know where I draw that line, and I'm sure some people on this site would say I crossed it.

 

[FinnSven]

Hobbies are weird. By definition, they're kind of pointless and indefensible.
In The Posessed, Dostoyevsky mocks a character who builds models of theaters out of cardboard, yet at the same time the way they're described makes them sound like things you could easily imagine proudly displayed in museums. Dostoyevsky makes it clear this is how the character deals with frustrations in his life; but what's wrong with that? I'd much rather he built a cardboard theater instead of, say, getting drunk and beating up his wife.
I have hobbies too, and collections at least as useless as Kevin's Transformers (but not Transformers). I think the only real practical difference between me and Kevin is I don't have debts or a tugboat, and I can actually tell the story behind each item in my collection and why it appeals to me.
Somewhere between "This is a character from a film. I met the actor who played him at a convention and he told me..." and "Please send us money, and look at this $900 limited edition Transformer I bought" a line is crossed, but I don't know where I draw that line, and I'm sure some people on this site would say I crossed it.

Thats what has puzzled me most about Kevvie's collection.

I collect knives, and if nothing else, they have practical applications.
I could sell some at a push, but not for as much as I paid for them, one or two might go for a bit more to the right buyer, but none of them are super unique.

I understand that the collections of toys can be valuable, but only if they keep them in the original packaging.
Not thrown into plastic crates or exposed to a toxic environment on shelves.

I get that it is for him mostly about the rush of unboxing, and having the toy, but it's going to make it impossible for someone to live with him.

This is why I think we will soon have a Kevvie thrown out of Penny's parents arc.

 

[UncleDaddy]

This is why I think we will soon have a Kevvie thrown out of Penny's parents arc.

New poll? 'How long until Kevvie gets kicked to the curb?' or maybe even 'Who gets kicked out first- Kevvie or Jen?'

 

[AssignedEva]

New poll? 'How long until Kevvie gets kicked to the curb?' or maybe even 'Who gets kicked out first- Kevvie or Jen?'

On the one hand, for as repulsive Kevin is, he mostly stays shut up in a room while Jen is kinda lairy.

On the other hand, at least Jen can make himself useful by unblocking clogged toilets

 

[FinnSven]

New poll? 'How long until Kevvie gets kicked to the curb?' or maybe even 'Who gets kicked out first- Kevvie or Jen?'

Kevvie. Seriously.

For all of his shit eating, it seems that Jen might be slightly more tolerable in living spaces, might be more capable of chores, has a less shaky tugboat entitlement and if his programming skills are still current enough, he could maybe earn some income.

Plus he doesn’t seem like he would take up as much space, in presence and in belongings.

 

[Monolith]

Hobbies are weird. By definition, they're kind of pointless and indefensible.
In The Posessed, Dostoyevsky mocks a character who builds models of theaters out of cardboard, yet at the same time the way they're described makes them sound like things you could easily imagine proudly displayed in museums. Dostoyevsky makes it clear this is how the character deals with frustrations in his life; but what's wrong with that? I'd much rather he built a cardboard theater instead of, say, getting drunk and beating up his wife.
I have hobbies too, and collections at least as useless as Kevin's Transformers (but not Transformers). I think the only real practical difference between me and Kevin is I don't have debts or a tugboat, and I can actually tell the story behind each item in my collection and why it appeals to me.
Somewhere between "This is a character from a film. I met the actor who played him at a convention and he told me..." and "Please send us money, and look at this $900 limited edition Transformer I bought" a line is crossed, but I don't know where I draw that line, and I'm sure some people on this site would say I crossed it.

I'd say the line is crossed somewhere around "Providing commentary about random internet retards."

 

[Aunt Carol]

"Please send us money, and look at this $900 limited edition Transformer I bought"

I'm surprised nobody's made a visual timeline of Kevin's begposts vs consoomposts.

In the past, it'd be friendly fire, and Kevin is inexplicably a big name in online queerdom. But things are starting to crumble at the Tranch, and the obvious way to get some of those "mutual aid" funds for your own anarchist commune would be to stitch together those "January 1 send money for surprise expenses, January 2 look at my Transformer, January 3 please fund the Tranch" posts.

Maybe the circular firing squad is just busy reloading.

 

[The Silent Perjority]

It's sort of been done. There were times when he grifted for "emergency medical bills" only to immediately follow it with transformer purchases. With the amount of begging and grift talking he does though its probably impossible to line everything up.

He's in for some interesting times I suppose, with the move and all.
You would think that it will deeply upset his daily routine of being pointless but I have a feeling he's so inured to reality that he's just going to cheerfully carry on at the new place as if nothing has happened.

 

[Humbert Humbert]

You fucking embarassment.

They're the robot when they're talking or fucking each other but they're the cars when they need to be in a car chase.

You think they rut like barnyard pigs, or chase each other with their clumsy robot feet? No!

I can't believe I have to explain this to you.

I know you’re probably joking, but this gave me the horrifying mental image of Kevin playing with his Transformers and making them fuck each other.

They come with instructions, they also follow a certain logic you can learn and become capable of intuiting. The design is actually quite clever, a lot of the best transformers are considered those which can manage to have plenty of articulation as a robot, while hiding most signs of the robot while in vehicle form, especially if they have more than one and you can hide not only the robot, but the other vehicles.

I was thinking along these lines, thank you for confirming. I was looking at the photos he posted last night and thinking to myself, “wait, that’s actually kind of cool that the transformer can become that little car”. Also I kind of understand why they’re so expensive now.

Ask for what you do with them, typically with collective hobbies like this, you not only collect them for the purposes of having them, but you also set up dioramas with them. Often rearranging them out of whim and to either show different scenes, or to simply display your collection with an eye to aesthetics.

I had no idea about the diorama aspect, wow!

I'm surprised nobody's made a visual timeline of Kevin's begposts vs consoomposts.

Well, I was considering calculating the rough cost of all of the shit he’s been opening, but I don’t know if I am autistic enough to actually do that.

 

[80's Dad]

Edit: Magic cards are 2.5 by 3.5 inches. They are 8.75 square inches as standard. Kevin has 9 commander decks, which are apparently 100 cards each. Without taking into account cards shared between decks or cards that are not in a set, he has around 900 cards.

900 times 8.75 is 7,875 square inches. Divided by 12, that's 656.25 square feet he can cover with his listed cards alone. He could probably cover a whole room with magic cards depending on the dimensions of the room with some left over.

Hate to out-autism you, but you actually have to divide the 7875 square inches by 144, which is how many square inches are in a square foot, to get the square footage of his card collection. That gives us 54.7 sq feet of cards, which is probably enough to cover the rest of the floors in the house that aren't already covered by plastic totes being used as night stands and cat piss soaked clothes.

Eh, that discourse is kind of over at this point. Bisexuals have been pushing back against that for a good year or so now and if you say the bi label is transphobic you’ll get clowned on (rightfully so).

Well that's a pain in the ass. Now I have to say that I'm bi and transphobic? Instead of just letting the bi imply that I'm transphobic? So many labels!!

 

[FinnSven]

It's sort of been done. There were times when he grifted for "emergency medical bills" only to immediately follow it with transformer purchases. With the amount of begging and grift talking he does though its probably impossible to line everything up.

He's in for some interesting times I suppose, with the move and all.
You would think that it will deeply upset his daily routine of being pointless but I have a feeling he's so inured to reality that he's just going to cheerfully carry on at the new place as if nothing has happened.

I agree that he will just carry on this entitled behavior, and that is why he will upset anyone who is not in his polycule and not literal peasants being made to feel obligated to follow his commands.

Would you put up with a strange freeloading manchild being possessive over the contents of your fridge?

 

[AngryTreeRat]

Hobbies are weird. By definition, they're kind of pointless and indefensible.
In The Posessed, Dostoyevsky mocks a character who builds models of theaters out of cardboard, yet at the same time the way they're described makes them sound like things you could easily imagine proudly displayed in museums. Dostoyevsky makes it clear this is how the character deals with frustrations in his life; but what's wrong with that? I'd much rather he built a cardboard theater instead of, say, getting drunk and beating up his wife.
I have hobbies too, and collections at least as useless as Kevin's Transformers (but not Transformers). I think the only real practical difference between me and Kevin is I don't have debts or a tugboat, and I can actually tell the story behind each item in my collection and why it appeals to me.
Somewhere between "This is a character from a film. I met the actor who played him at a convention and he told me..." and "Please send us money, and look at this $900 limited edition Transformer I bought" a line is crossed, but I don't know where I draw that line, and I'm sure some people on this site would say I crossed it.

Someone once described a hobby as "a second job that costs money" it's not necessarily about the work that goes into it, but often the time you put in. I do collect things, it's not my primary hobby (that's TTRPGs), but I collect commemorative coins and masks from around the world. The face value of the coins is a few hundred, maybe double at most to a collector, the masks range from worthless to belongs in a museum. In neither case is it about the value I could theoretically extract.

Hobbies are mostly healthy things to have, unless you let them grow out of control and start damaging your life, and most people with hobbies based around collecting aren't doing it for the purposes of value of resale. That's just a cope we use rather than tell other people to fuck off and let us enjoy our hobby. The resale value is just as theoretical as you selling your crafts. You're not doing arts and crafts for the purpose of selling, we're not collecting things for the purposes of resale. It doesn't fucking matter what potential financial value we could extract from our hobbies are, neither of us have any actual intention or priority to do so. If toy collectors wanted to make money they'd be scalpers, if arts and crafts people wanted to make money they'd be shilling their Etsy and working their ass off all day to make products and sell them. No one cares that your carpentry is theoretically useful as a skill, no one cares that you can theoretically defend yourself or hunt with your 50 guns, that's not why you're doing them that's a cope you use to justify it so STFU and sit down and admit you just enjoy it. That's a lot more respectable than having to bullshit a cope in my book. We both know that once you're dead and gone whoever inherits your wonderful "useful" collection is either going to sell it off or throw it out, and if they don't they are going to keep it to use it and never profit from it themselves. The same goes for every other collection.

At the end of the day, the reason I run TTRPGs, collect coins and masks, or you make things is the same. Because it's fun. So I don't shit on Kevin for the fact he has a hobby about collecting.

No, what I shit on him for is the fact that he's so clearly passionless about it. He is very performative about it, and it doesn't come off as a genuine passion. Instead it is simply a money pit that he cannot afford that he keeps dumping money down. He's allowed a performative hobby to damage his life. That's the funny part.

And no I'm not just mad I have no useful skills, I know one of you passionless fucks is going to accuse me of that cope. In the name of TTRPGs as a GM I've learned new programming languages for digital tools we use, digital art (but I'm bad), traditional art (but I'm bad), machining, carpentry, model making (physical and 3D), the actual craft of story telling, social skills despite literal autism, I learned history, geology, practical chemistry, how to make a gun from my own two fucking hands just to understand how hard the manufacturing of a wheel lock firearm would be for determining the DC for D&D and the thing actually works (I keep it disassembled and certain parts locked up due to local laws), metalworking, how to make PCBs, glass blowing, ceramics including mixing my own clay, metal refinement... I have useful skills, fuck I'd say I'm a veritable shitty polymath, and when humanity goes tits up and you're all fighting each other I'll be trading you the guns you fight with for materials and food. Until then let me buy silly masks, hoard pointless coins, roll silly dice, and do pointless things I enjoy while I laugh at retards who do pointless things and don't enjoy it.

Kevin isn't funny because transformers, he's funny because he doesn't enjoy nor afford them. He simply collects them for internet points.

 

[Humbert Humbert]

My hobby is being autistic on the internet.

I’m double posting for my daily update, which is shocking, because there’s basically nothing to write. Kevin did not make any tweets whatsoever today, he only replied to a few.
Flirting [A]

Uh… What “guy” is simping for Kevin? And don’t tell me his fellow polycule because they’re all “women”. [A]

“Kevin” is a very eggy name. [A]

Neck pun [A]

And because we need content, Wedge retweeted this earlier today

 

[AMHOLIO]

And what is the appeal of this?

I saw their appeal as similar to trains. They have many intricate parts that go clicky clicky but always follow some kind of pattern, are shiny and smooth, and there's a lot of them in cool colors with different backstories and histories to memorize and talk about the differences. It's an autism magnet for those reasons, but the appeal is more broad than just that. Sometimes moving little pieces around to make something look different is rewarding, as an "oh, that's neat!" sort of way.

Do you put them in the Barbie dreamhouse to live a luxury life?

Make sure to treat your toys well, autists.

Edit: Wait they fucking banned it wtf

Speaking of autism this is a deep fetish I'd expect the autistic mods of reddit to have, what the hell did they do to piss someone off enough to get banned?

I think the only real practical difference between me and Kevin is I don't have debts or a tugboat, and I can actually tell the story behind each item in my collection and why it appeals to me.

I'm sure Kevin can tell you way too much useless information on every single one of his transformer and his justification for their appeal is that "It's transformers, duh!" I don't know if he'd be able to tell you about the filler robots that he buys aside from character backstory though, and how "of course I bought it because Bumblebee is cool" or something along those lines.

I like your collection more because you choose what to get. You don't slop them into a bin "because transformers", because the more objects you have the calmer you are, you don't buy them like lootboxes for the five minute opening high, you didn't think that you're better than the others for having ALL the things, and you don't have the fear of missing out Kevin cites so often.

You're not emotionally dependent on your collection. YOU define your collection, your collection does NOT define you. As you said, you have more thought put into it, it's something that would be painful to part with but you could do and know you could rebuild (hopefully) one day. I think Kevin rather die than lose more than 10 robots in his collection. 1 to 4 is expected for moving, 5 plus is tardrage mode. Because his collection is his material wealth and he is miserly, it gets him into the kool kids klub, it makes him better and more powerful than others, he will raid the camps for transformers if he could make someone else do it. You just think masks and other things are neat and appreciate the culture behind them.

That's the difference in my eyes: smiling at a collection that makes you happy versus grinning maniacally at a collection that defines you, your wallet, and your mental heatlh.

and I'm sure some people on this site would say I crossed it.

Some people are only happy with practical skills and they're just as autistic as the rest of us, we're all on the same level. People can feel good about how they know how to tie different knots for sailing and how knowing the proper wood to burn makes them better than others, but enforcing the "lmao better than u" mentality means you're immature and only feel better about enjoying things when you put others down, which isn't what your hobby is about. It's not superiority that drives you to be practical, it's enjoyment and the security and satisfaction it gives knowing that you can do shit.

Don't get me wrong, you can still enjoy being better than the soyboys but don't let it be your sole definition or else you become Kevin.

I get that it is for him mostly about the rush of unboxing, and having the toy, but it's going to make it impossible for someone to live with him.

This is why I think we will soon have a Kevvie thrown out of Penny's parents arc

Optimistic but intriguing. I don't think it will happen but it would be hilarious so i'm all for it.

My opinion? I think Penny's parents will be thrown out or rehomed first. The tranchers are selfish. Penny wants his own house with his two manchildren he has an emotional parasitic relationship with (and they to him) and he doesn't need old people (especially his mom who has some sort of dementia IIRC) to harsh his buzz. You know, he's still young! He's still got a chewing side! Why don't you get off my land for everyone's benefit, dad? We need it more than you right now and other people can help you in a retirement home. That's my theory.

Hell, his dad might choose to downsize so he doesn't have to be near his son and doesn't have to worry about cleaning as much while looking after his wife.

I'd say the line is crossed somewhere around "Providing commentary about random internet retards."

HE WHO CAST THE FIRST STONE OF "lol retard" SHOULD BE SINLESS HIMSELF.

I'm surprised nobody's made a visual timeline of Kevin's begposts vs consoomposts.

He does it so much that an advanced timeline would take hours, if not days of consecutive time. It would be a colossal undertaking.

Hate to out-autism you, but you actually have to divide the 7875 square inches by 144, which is how many square inches are in a square foot, to get the square footage of his card collection. That gives us 54.7 sq feet of cards, which is probably enough to cover the rest of the floors in the house that aren't already covered by plastic totes being used as night stands and cat piss soaked clothes.

I'm not upset at the one up of tism, I learned something new and can now bully him better while learning skills for say tiling my own floor IRL. You're keeping me slightly more useful than Kevvie, thanks.

My hobby is being autistic on the internet.

It must be, you double posted.

Flirting

Imagine flirting with a dogfucker. Once you flirt with Jen, I guess you have hit rock bottom though so this may be slightly above if not on the same level as shit eating.

And because we need content, Wedge retweeted this earlier today

Fortunately enough of them are smart enough to not actually beg for this in public, just go "Ha ha ha, yeah, that's funny, but maybe...? "
I'm reading into it more than I should, I've just grown used to these men and women troons expecting the gooberment to cover everything since it's ALL important to their mental health and will complete them as a person, economy be dammed.

 

[Aunt Carol]

He does it so much that an advanced timeline would take hours, if not days of consecutive time. It would be a colossal undertaking.

Oh, definitely; remembering more than a month or so is suspicious to that crowd, something we might do.

Still, if I were frustrated with how the crowdfunding for my BIPOC anarchist polycule's weed and legal fund was going, Kevin's effortless fundraising and immediate profligacy would be galling. And as you said, it'd only take going a week or so back to find a good set of matching "starving alpacas/TRANSFORMERS" timestamps to stir up some trouble and send more eyes to my own (hypothetical) donation page.

 

[TheBigZee]

Collecting is just hoarding with extra steps.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Before we go any further on collecting debates I made a thread so we can debate this properly.

Collecting is just hoarding with extra steps.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

And because we need content, Wedge retweeted this earlier today

Ok, so I am on the side of the fence that says "If all non-medical means of managing and coping with gender dysphoria have been exhausted, then move onto the HRS and it should be paid for as a mental health need, and if that fails then try some gender affirming surgery" So I am WAY more generous than most of this thread board (I keep forgetting that Stinkditch is now an entire board on the forums after the Keffals thing, I just get to Kevkev and friends from my alerts) when it comes to troons and hearing them out and believing they deserve to have these things covered, and even I, in my most illogical, most inane, most out there twisting of logic and putting myself into their head Olympic tier mental gymnastics, can't think of how a fucking tattoo is gender affirming. Maybe maybe if you really tried you could convince me selective tattoo removal could be gender affirming, as the tattoos themselves are gendered, but the acquisition of tattoos is not a gendered thing, having a tattoo of a particular type isn't necessary to be a given gender. Men and women get tattoos, sure they get different tattoos, but unlike clothing, society generally doesn't expect you to have tattoos, nor does it put much expectation on men or women having certain tattoos (it typically focuses of certain tattoos AT ALL stereotypically found primarily on men or women), in fact if anything it puts more emphasis on the idea that people shouldn't have tattoos rather than they should.