thanks for the sermon, grandma.

i mentioned this upthread, but just a few minutes ago the leader of my Clash of Clans guild brought it up by saying "i will kick anyone who [supports Kaepernick]". i replied saying i supported him, and he kicked me out. so yeah the anti-protest crowd is not imaginary.

yes he is. why is it only racists who bring up how Obama and Kaepernick aren't black enough for them?

nothing constructive to offer … other than donating millions of dollars to charity as a direct result of sales resulting from his protest, and shining more light on the problem of police brutality and how the lives of people of color are not valued as much as white lives in this country, not to mention he's managed to…

we had slavery. worse than Hitler. i hope you hold the USA in similar contempt.

haha i love it when people want to attack an act of protest but can't find any firmer footing than "well i don't like him personally…"

i got kicked out of my Clash of Clans clan for saying i agreed with Kaepernick (when the clan leader brought it up by saying he would kick anyone who did)

the people of this Earth seem to be pretty aware and accepting of the fact that there are sentient magical beings wandering around the planet, and it would seem pretty obvious that these gem things have been there longer than the humans have had meaningful civilization. i don't see how these humans could see the gems…

this was great!! Cool Pearl is best Pearl!

such heroic nonsense.

yep, that happened.

you won't be confused, but you will also kind of miss the #1 reason this movie holds such a prominent place in geek culture. Transformers was a typical weekday afternoon show, with a cast of characters that all had different and distinct personalities and spent 22 minutes a day shooting at each other, but nobody ever…

i just kept wondering why the autobots didn't get the Junkions to reassemble ALL their dead friends. i mean Ultra Magnus was literally blown up and dismembered into a dozen pieces and these guys had zero trouble bringing him back to life in like 30 seconds. Brawn died from a single shot to the shoulder! maybe these…

haha good point. "sure thing, unicron, maybe the matrix will just happen to float past my dessicated robo-corpse floating in space."

can't argue with that.

it holds up okay. autobots getting brutally murdered right and left is still shocking. it sags in the third quarter. it doesn't rise too far above being an entertaining movie aimed at kids, but it doesn't suck.

i dunno if i'd go so far as to call it stunning … i mean, yeah, it was definitely a big step up from the stuff we got on TV at the time, but let's not go pretending this is some Studio Ghibli joint.

i'm not sure i could get enough of Prime yelling at Hot Rod, though. that sounds great, in theory.

I like this movie, but a lot of the shit that happens really is Hot Rod's fault. He basically got Optimus Prime killed, then fucked up the transfer of the Matrix of Leadership, and more or less acts like an arrogant jackass through most of the film. The prophecy requires the Autobots' "darkest hour" to activate, so…

her actual age is immaterial. she looked like a teenager, was stated to be on the cusp of puberty, and clearly had the emotional maturity of a little girl.