The widest gamer prime i know, it’s the War For Cybertron Optimus Prime! I got the Studio Series one (I preordered it, and I never do that!) He’s so great! The Gun he comes with is meh, but that Axe is Something else man!
I played War for Cybertron on the DS and the Wii when they came out. I was a kid at the time, and they were the only consoles I had. I remember that by the time Fall of Cybertron came out, I rented the game from a Redbox and played it on my friend’s Xbox in one sitting. Those games were so cool! And I still recommend the DS games! It’s so cool seeing and playing as so many autobots “High Moon-ified!”
By far the funniest transition timelines are the ones from trans men where the “before” picture is some teeny little guy with sad baby seal eyes and the “after” picture looks like Kratos
I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.
I know why “prefered pronouns” and “prefered name” were retired from the vocabulary (it’s way more than a matter of preference) but in retrospect it feels like a successful psyop to make transphobes sound absolutely incoherent.
Griping about people having “prefered pronouns”: legible, clearly indicates what they have a problem with (trans people existing and being respected), makes you a huge unreasonable asshole but one whose grievances can at least be parsed for some kind of meaning.
Griping about people just having “pronouns”: Incoherent, you are angry at a part of speech. Old man yells at cloud moment. Your hatred is so blinding that you can’t hide that you have no idea what you’re talking about and you look like a child throwing a tantrum except a child has probably been in an english class recently enough to know what a pronoun is.
Anyway we should do this with more stuff. Let’s just call transitioning puberty exclusively until we get right wing grifters saying that puberty is unnatural and if you’ve gone through it you’re a freak on their shitty little youtube channels.
Please keep in mind that the PPG far predate memes or the superdictionary being used as meme fodder. Craig McCracken just independently read this book and said “yes, that is how a villain should sound, I will make a villain that speaks like this. His dialogue will match the repetitive patterns found in this book and will sound like it came from the superdictionary.”
The thing I love the most about the 40 cakes thing is it could have been 40 anything. He could have stolen 40 dollars from the bank. He could have kidnapped 40 people. He could have blown up 40 buildings. He could even be 40 years old. But nope. Supervillain Lex Luthor just really wanted 40 cakes and thought stealing them would be more fun than simply buying them with all the money he canonically has.
Luthor is a villain, an evil-doer, the sort of person who likes to do bad things; Of course he would steal the cakes even if he can pay for them. Stealing cakes is more villainous, it causes more trouble for others…
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