Let's hear some hot takes!

He does got them lips but Soundwave won the Best Robo-Husband poll on Tumblr. XD


However my bias is Knock Out from Transformers Prime. ;)


The number of half-finished fanfics I've written about this guy . . .
lol xD so silly

back in the day when i was really into transformers, i made my own lol, he was an F-18 Hornet just, i named him Co-Pilot lol

but i never crossed to the dark side, i just seen them all as robots xD
 
The Transformers fandom is the horniest one I've ever seen. but does the entire internet know that? No, because nsfw gets tagged and people don't post it in communities where it's not wanted. There are dudes who have been TF collectors for 30 years who are completely unaware that most of the female fans are reading steamy fanfics and drawing, like, very humanoid and well-muscled butts on all the robots. (Among other anatomy.)

Anyway, my hot take is that Transformers Animated Megatron is overrated and not that sexy.

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And we all know that the sexiest Megatron is Beast Wars Megatron. Yeeeeees..... ;)

((in all seriousness, some of my TF faves include Hot Rod/Rodimus, Red Alert, the Aerialbot Air Raid... and who doesn't like Jazz? And I've also made my own fair share of OCs. XD And lots of fanart.))
 
G1 Teeny Tiny Babies dont look like horses

or let me rephrase that - they look like all the things that people dont like in g4 or g5 with the short/flat face, small muzzle, with big eyes, but people still let the teeny tinys pass, i guess its cause they are g1
I do not let them pass. I Gandalf my collection.

There are dudes who have been TF collectors for 30 years who are completely unaware that most of the female fans are reading steamy fanfics and drawing, like, very humanoid and well-muscled butts on all the robots. (Among other anatomy.)
Learning this absolutely made my day. :rofl:

Anyway, my hot take is that Transformers Animated Megatron is overrated and not that sexy.
HAHAHAAAAA ::rofl::

This thread is rad. Everybody brewing Tea without getting in fist fights. YES. Lemme hear those OPINIONS.
 
I do not let them pass. I Gandalf my collection.
I GANDALF MY COLLECTION :rofl:
lol xD so silly

back in the day when i was really into transformers, i made my own lol, he was an F-18 Hornet just, i named him Co-Pilot lol

but i never crossed to the dark side, i just seen them all as robots xD

Jet Transformers are my favorites, who wouldn't want to fly? No wonder the Decepticons got so many recruits, even their tape decks could swoosh into the air . . .

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And we all know that the sexiest Megatron is Beast Wars Megatron. Yeeeeees..... ;)

((in all seriousness, some of my TF faves include Hot Rod/Rodimus, Red Alert, the Aerialbot Air Raid... and who doesn't like Jazz? And I've also made my own fair share of OCs. XD And lots of fanart.))
BW Megatron is the number one Megatron, yessss . . . BTW his voice actor is great and he does convention circuits a lot, even small ones. (So does Optimus Primal's voice actor.) Like they were both at Washington State Toy Fair which had admission of $7. If you see them and you're a fan of Beast Wars or other stuff they were in (pretty sure BW Megatron's VA was also Professor X in "X-Men Evolution") definitely say hi, they are so funny and nice.

Also great picks! (I have loads of OCs too, ha ha!)

One time I bought an 80s toy trade magazine off eBay and it had this in it:

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Transformers, starring Jazz as THE HOT ROBOT.

I actually agree with ActionHank that there needs to be space for non-kid-safe places on the internet. In "the real world" we let people congregate in bars and get drunk, we let them go to movies with the f-bomb and graphic violence in them, etc. I don't care if people are weirdly horny about something as long as they tag it / keep it where its wanted. You should see the first piece of creative writing I ever stumbled across on the internet. It wasn't even fanfiction, just fiction, and it was W I L D. But it was an important lesson for fourteen year old me: okay, there's stuff on here I don't want to see, and in the future I'm going to be more careful what I click on.

The shrinking of the internet down to a couple mega-sites (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter (well until it crashed and burned), Instagram, etc) has really been to the detriment of any niche interest, whether that interest was inappropriate for kids or just a little weird. Like, if someone was rating the hotness of skeletons or feet or whatever on their Geocities site (RIP Geocities) and that wasn't your thing, it was easy to avoid . . . just don't go to that site. Whereas Youtube etc have algorithms shoving content in your face, and there's this attitude of "the more people see and engage with your interest, the more legitimate it is." Man, I miss the Geocities era. I would take the worst-designed pages, complete with eye-searing text and midis that you can't turn off, over today's truncated internet.

(Also when the algorithms go wrong they will spew offensive content right in your face, like with Twitter's recent overhaul they had an incident where it started putting videos of real animal abuse on people's feeds. Not that I liked Twitter to begin with, but it is a garbage fire now. In general I think letting computers dictate / recommend content is a terrible idea. Get behind me, HAL 9000.)

OH, I have to give a special shoutout to videographers on TikTok and Youtubers who say "unalive" instead of "dead" etc for fear of being demonetized. It sounds so stupid and they should take the L on the money instead of their dignity. "He unalived himself :(". STOP, FREAKIN STOP.
 
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I guess your right but doesn't mean I have to like it when they try to child friendly a site I like, I mean they were ruining Youtube for a bit with that crap, at least they've kind of backed off with that stuff somewhat since then. Also I still don't see the appeal social media has to people I mean it's just a bunch of disjointed conversations with ads everywhere.

But then again I'm not sure why I'm talking like I'm some kind of massive web surfer, when I realize that I only really go to around four sites consistently, those being this place, a different forum, a games dev thing, and youtube.

At least the whole youtube thing gave me partial inspiration for my youtube archive where I download all the videos from channels I like, I'm at 812 channels and over 40,000 videos as it stands right now!


I don't think I'd need a kit for that, there's plenty of crap floating around that could be used to build one, but I would buy an old one because I ain't afraid of no ghost.
You'll care when the ghosts rat you out.
 
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I GANDALF MY COLLECTION :rofl:


Jet Transformers are my favorites, who wouldn't want to fly? No wonder the Decepticons got so many recruits, even their tape decks could swoosh into the air . . .


BW Megatron is the number one Megatron, yessss . . . BTW his voice actor is great and he does convention circuits a lot, even small ones. (So does Optimus Primal's voice actor.) Like they were both at Washington State Toy Fair which had admission of $7. If you see them and you're a fan of Beast Wars or other stuff they were in (pretty sure BW Megatron's VA was also Professor X in "X-Men Evolution") definitely say hi, they are so funny and nice.

Also great picks! (I have loads of OCs too, ha ha!)

One time I bought an 80s toy trade magazine off eBay and it had this in it:

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Transformers, starring Jazz as THE HOT ROBOT.

I actually agree with ActionHank that there needs to be space for non-kid-safe places on the internet. In "the real world" we let people congregate in bars and get drunk, we let them go to movies with the f-bomb and graphic violence in them, etc. I don't care if people are weirdly horny about something as long as they tag it / keep it where its wanted. You should see the first piece of creative writing I ever stumbled across on the internet. It wasn't even fanfiction, just fiction, and it was W I L D. But it was an important lesson for fourteen year old me: okay, there's stuff on here I don't want to see, and in the future I'm going to be more careful what I click on.

The shrinking of the internet down to a couple mega-sites (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter (well until it crashed and burned), Instagram, etc) has really been to the detriment of any niche interest, whether that interest was inappropriate for kids or just a little weird. Like, if someone was rating the hotness of skeletons or feet or whatever on their Geocities site (RIP Geocities) and that wasn't your thing, it was easy to avoid . . . just don't go to that site. Whereas Youtube etc have algorithms shoving content in your face, and there's this attitude of "the more people see and engage with your interest, the more legitimate it is." Man, I miss the Geocities era. I would take the worst-designed pages, complete with eye-searing text and midis that you can't turn off, over today's truncated internet.

(Also when the algorithms go wrong they will spew offensive content right in your face, like with Twitter's recent overhaul they had an incident where it started putting videos of real animal abuse on people's feeds. Not that I liked Twitter to begin with, but it is a garbage fire now. In general I think letting computers dictate / recommend content is a terrible idea. Get behind me, HAL 9000.)

OH, I have to give a special shoutout to videographers on TikTok and Youtubers who say "unalive" instead of "dead" etc for fear of being demonetized. It sounds so stupid and they should take the L on the money instead of their dignity. "He unalived himself :(". STOP, FREAKIN STOP.

Geocities! :cry: :ponylove:

I agree that I’d take that version of the web. I miss those early days. I remember my absolute WONDER the first time someone posted a picture in a chat room (L’Hotel RIP) and I learned about image hosting. Writing sites with code, embedding those ridiculous midis, making portal animations or clickable images. Good times.
 
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BW Megatron is the number one Megatron, yessss . . . BTW his voice actor is great and he does convention circuits a lot, even small ones. (So does Optimus Primal's voice actor.) Like they were both at Washington State Toy Fair which had admission of $7. If you see them and you're a fan of Beast Wars or other stuff they were in (pretty sure BW Megatron's VA was also Professor X in "X-Men Evolution") definitely say hi, they are so funny and nice.

Also great picks! (I have loads of OCs too, ha ha!)

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I saw that same image; it's hilarious! XD And I agree with you 100% on the state of the internet right now. The "sanitization" (shall we say) of spaces to make it kid-friendly is just doing more damage than good. Kid-friendly spaces on the internet? Good! All for that! But leave space for everyone else, too. Please.

Also I know the VAs are great people! I've met some of them at cons before. :) I was actually lucky enough to get to attend a 1-day class on voice-acting, with Scott McNeil! He was a HOOT! XD
 
The old internet was the best internet, everybody's so worried about offending people now days that it's ruined the whole thing.


They can't rat me out if I kill them as well!
How do you re kill a ghost?
 
The shrinking of the internet down to a couple mega-sites (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter (well until it crashed and burned), Instagram, etc) has really been to the detriment of any niche interest, whether that interest was inappropriate for kids or just a little weird. Like, if someone was rating the hotness of skeletons or feet or whatever on their Geocities site (RIP Geocities) and that wasn't your thing, it was easy to avoid . . . just don't go to that site. Whereas Youtube etc have algorithms shoving content in your face, and there's this attitude of "the more people see and engage with your interest, the more legitimate it is." Man, I miss the Geocities era. I would take the worst-designed pages, complete with eye-searing text and midis that you can't turn off, over today's truncated internet.

Geocities! :cry: :ponylove:

I agree that I’d take that version of the web. I miss those early days. I remember my absolute WONDER the first time someone posted a picture in a chat room (L’Hotel RIP) and I learned about image hosting. Writing sites with code, embedding those ridiculous midis, making portal animations or clickable images. Good times.
I would love to introduce you to Neocities, a spiritual successor to Geocities; custom mouse animations, construction signs, and all. They even have a browse function, which is a step up imo to webrings lol. Though you can definitely still do that! One of my fav old internet things was finding hidden links on a website or figuring out the puzzles to reach hidden pages.

RIP all the image sites I used to host on. My GaiaOnline posts are a swath of dead image links. TT_TT
 
The old internet was the best internet, everybody's so worried about offending people now days that it's ruined the whole thing
It depends on where you stumble into. There's no lack of name calling, brigading, and doxing. Or just straight up hate groups with significant presence online.

The difference is that it use to be you would accidentally find explicit fanart or a slash fic. Now it's someone's manifesto..

So a lot of communities had to pull in on themselves lest someone doxes people and they get sent death threats or swatting. Old internet didn't have that.

(Editing to add: I lost my dad to some of the stuff online now. He and his wife are all in)
 
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Hot take: I'm already fed up with hasbro doing multi packs this gen. It's lazy and expensive.
 
It depends on where you stumble into. There's no lack of name calling, brigading, and doxing. Or just straight up hate groups with significant presence online.

So a lot of communities had to pull in on themselves lest someone doxes people and they get sent death threats or swatting. Old internet didn't have that.
I've been under the impression that there were hate groups on the internet the whole time

The doxing and death threats are part of the offending people stuff I mentioned as it seems to be the result for the most part.

The internet of today is a massive hunk of crap,
 
The internet of today is a massive hunk of crap,
Search algorithms ruining that randomness that used to be possible. Now you just get served up more of the same.

The other stuff used to be around, but not everyone had a computer and broadband.

Hot take: I'm already fed up with hasbro doing multi packs this gen. It's lazy and expensive.
I've noticed some tendency towards this in other toys, too. I wonder if Hasbro looked at the other brands they've bought up and said "Eh, people will keep buying to get the one or two they want".
 
My hot take is that I do not care for G4 at all. I liked G4 when it came out, but now... Idk, not convinced the show was *that* great- and we all know the toys were not it. I guess in this community saying you don't like G4 isn't a hot take, but out in the normal world if you're labeled the MLP girl and you say you don't like G4 ur given weird looks :p
 
My hot take is that I do not care for G4 at all. I liked G4 when it came out, but now... Idk, not convinced the show was *that* great- and we all know the toys were not it. I guess in this community saying you don't like G4 isn't a hot take, but out in the normal world if you're labeled the MLP girl and you say you don't like G4 ur given weird looks :p
I feel the same, I remember I disliked G4 when it first came out but then loved it a few years later... However, after rewatching the show a couple of years ago, I was sad and surprised to find I only enjoyed very little about the show! I get the feeling it was always a thing I liked just to have something to like, and to fit in with a fandom... I still like a few things about G4 though such as Rarity and Apple Bloom.


Then again, the same thing happened with G5 for me, I loved it with every fiber of my being and was seen as one of G5's biggest supporters but then it disappointed me more than any other fictional thing ever has haha. And people said the newest batch of episodes is excellent but I tried skimming it and Zipp and Hitch irritate me too greatly plus the animation, expressions, dialogue etc "annoy" me somehow... Is this how parents feel when they watch little kids' shows like Peppa Pig?? Am I becoming a boring type of adult??? Yet I still like lots of other little kids' shows, and love A New Generation and the Maretime Bay video game.

Anyway today's hot take is that Twinkle Wish Adventure is one of the best MLP media and the G3.5 Core Seven is the best main cast MLP has ever had--in my opinion at least!
 
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