Magic Space Robot

All my friends hate how much I talk about Transformers Transformers, Destiny, Bionicle, DC, and Marvel occasionally, and some other things I draw things sometimes. Sometimes I even finish them

[robotsprinkles]

Boptimus Primer

Boptimus Primer

[ahamkara-apologist]

fuck it. whatever. [transes your aiat]

[destinyheritageposts]

Destiny Heritage Post

[robotsprinkles]

Might post my Transformers worldbuilding and fic ideas/thoughts that I've been rotating in my head in the hopes of finding people to discuss them with

Sure hope I don't get killed with spears and sledgehammers for thinking the "mechs and femmes" thing is stupid (among a lot of other common fanon concepts/fanfic tropes)

[elfstrogenized]

Pressing my button that explodes all tumblr developers and watching with absolute glee

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Reminder that "transwoman" without the space is a transmisogynistic dogwhistle as it's used almost exclusively by hate groups like the "gender critical" movement.

The implication of removing the space is that being trans isn't just one way a woman can be, like being tall or being brunette, but that women who are trans require a whole other noun.

Trans women, tall women, brunette women. Leave the space in; trans is an adjective and trans women are women.

[robotsprinkles]

war thunder is an egregiously bad game, even ignoring the standard complaints of most war thunder players (volumetric, russian bias, etc)

it's bad because

the devs don't know how to make maps, resulting in half the maps allowing you to get spawncamped from halfway across the map/the only objective in the match, half the maps letting enemies sit behind your spawn without being marked such that they can snipe you from a random hill 500 metres behind you the moment you spawn in

The devs decided to "fix" any issue they have with players getting into unintended cheese spots on maps by just. coating every tank's tracks and every hill in lube and olive oil

the game will sometimes just randomly decide to change your gamemode for no good reason, changing you from ground realistic to ground arcade without any interaction with the gamemode menu on your part

sometimes the devs will put an "upgrade" on a tank's modifications list which is actively worse than the unupgraded version (see: the M551 Sheridan's Shillelagh, which is theoretically really good but actually sucks ass because it loves to slam itself into the ground for no reason, blowing up harmlessly before hitting the target. It does this 80% of the time you try to use it, and 30-50% of the time it hits something it doesn't kill it, so you just end up getting killed during your 15 second long reload — which unlike the normal shell's reload can't be reduced by upgrading your loader)

the devs decided to make getting vehicles at least twice as grindy as it needed to be, requiring that you essentially buy/unlock each vehicle three times, one: research the vehicle (get xp for it by completing matches with other vehicles in the same tech tree); two: buy the vehicle (using the standard in-game currency); and three: retrain one of your existing crews on that vehicle (using the same currency). You cannot try to reduce this by just researching through a branch to only buy the vehicle you want, because to buy a vehicle you have to purchase the previous vehicle in the branch. Arguments about how this is to prevent people from skipping straight to a high-tier vehicle in a BR they don't know how to play — thus screwing their team by immediately dying and not having any backup tanks — are invalid, because if you pay the devs a hundred bucks they let you skip straight to top tier by buying a 12.0 tank This is also made worse by the game having an Armored Core style maintenance and ammunition cost system that can cause you to get stuck in a spiral of losing (in-game) money if you do badly enough, which is completely unnecessary, because again, you already need to buy each vehicle three times, so the grind would still be enough to convince most people to just pay real money for a vehicle anyway

[robotsprinkles]

I don't know if this is useful information to anyone but just in case:

depending on what else you add to the filling, 1kg of mince makes 85-100 jiaozi/gyoza

(maybe more if you're very conservative with how much filling you put in each dumpling)

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[robotsprinkles]

I know I'm somewhat reaching here but I think it's a little funny how my favourite RVB character is Tex and my favourite DC character is Cassandra Cain, who are both very similar yet kind of occupy the opposite narrative role/relationship in their series (Carolina and Lady Shiva)

have designs that are 99% black with 1% gold/yellow accents (visor in Tex's case, batsymbol and belt in Cass' case

are the best fighters in their respective series, who are functionally unbeatable in a 1v1 and can wipe the floor with the rest of their team

are kinda massive asshats who tend to treat their friends poorly

Except they're sort of inverted in that Tex's rivalry with Carolina is mostly a one-sided thing caused by Carolina's competitiveness and need to be the best/top of the leaderboard, with Tex not really caring about the leaderboard at all.

While in Cass' situation she's the competitive one who needs to be the best — "mediocre for a lifetime or perfect for a year" — and won't let herself lose, as demonstrated below (her arm's broken from a previous fight with Lady Shiva earlier in the day, which she lost in part due to a psychic deleting half her skills for comic book reasons).

Shiva doesn't really map well onto Tex though, since she doesn't work for anyone and is mostly just wandering the world looking for someone who can actually challenge/beat her in a fight.

Another inverted thing is that Cass is Shiva's daughter, while Tex is Carolina's mother*.

*artificial AI clone of Carolina's dead mother Allison but close enough

[robotsprinkles]

I need war thunder teammates to understand that if you're going to — as a group of four to five people — let over three enemies roll past the lane you're all sitting in and looking down so they can shoot me in the flank, and then proceed to drive straight past me as I have a minute-long repair as a result of your refusal to do your job, despite being fully capable of helping, I will magdump into you to reveal both our positions so the enemy can kill both of us

[milowing]

duke thomas spends 10+ years getting comics and growth and plot and hes "too new" and people "dont know him well enough". superboy prime gets five minutes of character development and hes suddenly a fan favorite getting shipped with every character under the sun. i hate this fandom.

[segamascott]

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widowtracer kinda funny in that it was uber popular yuri that lowkey got nuked by one of the parties being confirmed gay and getting a canon slop gf in the background

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[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

If Spider-Gwen had a bi flag on her wall there wouldn’t be any debate as to whether or not she was really bi