FB 9/17 - Transformers is baffling

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MediExcalibur2012 said:
Seems like he's really focusing on Transformers now.

Didn't he say something in the past of a great concern like.. You know?

Money issues, paying the mortgage, his mothers declining health...?

NAH WHO GIVES A FUCK. ITS ALL ABOUT THEM MOTHERFUCKEN TRANSFORMERS!!!
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Maybe there's hope and maybe him and Barb, (assuming she's still alive), can live out the rest of their days in an RV that transforms into a troll-fighting bot from the ground up.
 
Okay first off, while the toys themselves are based off of Japanese lines (Diaclone, Microman, Macross, etc.). The overall concept and TV cartoon are American-produced (with the Japanese and Koreans animating the latter).

Secondly, why the hell are you asking that when both you and your mother can die at any given time and are currently getting sued the shit out of by banks and creditors? I'd ask why he isn't thinking about what may happen if the lawsuits don't go in their favor, but then I realize he's Chris. He never thinks about that shit in any capacity.
 
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I hope chris doesn't start talking about Tokusatsu vs. Power Rangers, if that happens we will have a 24 page thread.
 
Is Chris Japanese or American? He is a "Chandler" but he shortens it to "Chan." He is also significantly lower in build quality than most other Chandlers and Chans. I feel like 14 Branchland court is gypping us.
 
Chris is baffled by children's toys and cartoons. Seems par for the course for him. Then again, this is the guy who took five years to earn a two-year associates degree.
 
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Gunslinger said:
Don't you have to leave childhood in order to regress back to childhood?
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A very good point. In times past, though, Chris would at least make a token attempt at pretending to be a grown-up. But these days he seems to have mostly given up on that almost entirely.

BurningPewter said:
Also..If Chris failed at Pride and is retreating into toys..that fits what I know..my autistic friend who I was complaining about before...if he has a bad date or gets turned down or something, he retreats into Star Trek.
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It's probably a coping mechanism to help them deal with stressful situations. At best, Chris will be ignored by all the Cute Lesbians and their Girlfriends (who don't count as Jerks although they are, effectively, keeping the China away from him); at worse he will be told to go away if he gets too overfriendly and be dismayed at all the male borderline nudity going on (and those are indeed Jerks, Gay Jerks, who oddly enough are actually not stealing any China from him...but are still Jerks because reasons, gay and homos etc.).
 
Who gives a fuck, Chris? It's a toyline made for children. The cartoon, whether you want to consider it "more American" or "more Japanese" was made for the sole purpose of selling said toys to children.

Literally, there is no other purpose for anything Transformers, other than it to be a vehicle to sell toys.

And this is coming FROM a Transformers fan
 
I'd rather listen to him sperging out about Transformers than showing us pictures of his taint or constantly begging for insane sums of money. You know, he could probably make a few bucks by making some Transformers unboxing/review videos. Most adult Transformers fans are just as autistic as Chris, so he'd probably fit right in.
 
Optimus Prime said:
*Transformers sperg mode ACTIVATE!*

Transformers as it was first invented is 100% an American created franchise. Back in 1983, what would become the original 1984 G1 toys were actually two separate lines; Diaclone which were piloted car robots with little drivers (and not sentient, hence why G1 Ironhide/Ratchet infamously have chairs instead of heads), and Microchange which were mainly inanimate objects that turned into 1:1 scale robots (basically Soundwave and his tape goons). Hasbro reps who had gone to Japan negotiated a licencing deal with Takara to sell the two lines in America.

But when they consulted an advertising company - the same one that actually came up with the GI JOE franchise - the company's CEO was the one who came up with the idea of combining the separate lines into a single line pitting only the robots in a battle of good and evil, copying the individual characterization aspect for each toy that made GI JOE so successful. The G1 Autobot and Deception symbols are in fact stylized profile shots of the G1 Prowl and G1 Soundwave toys.

Takara also tried just releasing Diaclone in the west by themselves, but quickly abandoned it in favor of bringing over Transformers to Japan, with numerous changes (Autobots and Decepticons became 'Cybertrons' and 'Destrons', Optimus Prime' was a name thought too hard for Japanese kids to pronounce so he's just "Convoy", etc.).

*Speg mode deactivate*

I'm sure to get Autism ratings for this, but I'll try to descipher what he's blabbing about to the best of my knowledge in this subject.

Now...Chris is wrong about a number of things here.

Primarily, the bit about how the 'Japanese' versions having more features, because all of those gimmick figures (the *masters, in head(duh), target (gun), and power(engine) variants) did get American releases. And while he's trying to draw comparisons to how the headmaster gimmick is the main gimmick of the current Titans Return line, he fails to do his research as the original Headmasters only had the gimmick extend to merely swapping heads to make some spring loaded bars in the chests move differently. The modern figures do not have that gimmick (Hasbro actually tried to modernize it a few years back, execution was not stellar so they abandoned it), so the head swapping was turned into the actual play pattern of Titans Return - it is very much sorta like Pokemon in the idea having more only increases the fun you can have, between the body headswapping, the smaller figures having convertible gun vehicles (to sell the heads at a smaller price point because the heads on their own actually don't do shit), and the Leader classes feature elaborate base modes to put the army of 'Titanmasters" or so the little figures are called all around.

He's also amusingly ignorant of the major difference between Hasbro and Takara versions of toys for at least the past decade. Here is a comparison of the heads of Hardhead (top row) and Skullcruncher (bottom), the companies already denoted on the left and right - though I should note these are the Takara Prototypes and the Hasbro final production samples, hence the color mismatch.
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Yes, Takara's faces - which amount to a single part change on the heads, the rest of the toy is identical in either example - are more cartoon accurate, but Hasbro's Hardhead is toy accurate, while their Skullcruncher is a super-stylized version of the original toy head as well.

Why Chris even gives a shit about this is beyond me, though, because beyond the animated commercials I highly doubt Chris would have even SEEN the Headmasters cartoon the Takara faces are from. Because it didn't get mass western syndication and if I'm right, Chris was only age 5 in 1987 when the Headmasters came out in the first place to shelves. Is this his autism acting up again, where the same guy has two different faces and he's simply taking what he finds online to be the truth (since everywhere of relevance would state the Takara version is the cartoon accurate faces)? The same situation as 'blue arms' Sonic being impossible to comprehend as simply a different look for the same character? Because the only way I understand Chris thinking this is confusing is if the two faces can not simultaneously be 'correct' for different reasons.
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Didnt Headmasters come out here recently?
 
DragoonSierra said:
Didnt Headmasters come out here recently?
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The toyline or the anime?

Because Shout Factory has released the Japanese exclusive anime Transformers series in America with Subtitles (which includes an anime CALLED The Headmasters)

If you mean the toyline, yes, Titans Return is a new toyline for the Western Market and it is ALL about the headmasters . The big gimmick for this line being that almost any "head master robot" can be interchangeable with almost every other robot toy.

This, I believe, is why Chris has been sperging about Transformers so much. Because this toyline is pretty new still. Like only been out for a month or two. Also, all the toys are homages to G1 Transformers, so that's a bonus for Chris.
 
Iam said:
and those are indeed Jerks, Gay Jerks, who oddly enough are actually not stealing any China from him...but are still Jerks because reasons, gay and homos etc.).
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Please do not forgot that they are stealing the attention from women away from him and not using it constructively (as in to get laid).
Galvatron said:
Who gives a fuck, Chris? It's a toyline made for children. The cartoon, whether you want to consider it "more American" or "more Japanese" was made for the sole purpose of selling said toys to children.

Literally, there is no other purpose for anything Transformers, other than it to be a vehicle to sell toys.

And this is coming FROM a Transformers fan
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As a child, you remember playing with toys, just to play with them and if some overgrown crossdresser gave you a lecture on their history, well, that would be creepy. It's like Chris has to take everything out of context in life, including toys.

BurningPewter said:
IT is hitting him hard how he is not going to connect with a lesbian so he is hiding in Cybertron to distract himself
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Part of me wants to pay someone that is desperate for money to give Chris a big hug and let Chris stay in his world, but at the same time, I know Chris' life is going to start getting worse in a few years, so he needs to be prepared. Chris is very much aware that he can't go on rants about gay men or lesbians that won't date him anymore, so he retreats into toys. This is just an egocentric man that can't cope with his own illness and still believes he is an above normal artistic genius while carrying around a purse with plastic ponies hanging out o fit. It's just ironic that the only system that has never failed Chris is the troll system that has never let him forget about his limitations.
 
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