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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 37 points 7 months ago (4 children)

680 episode seasons, from which only 3 episodes are not space Aesop’s fables.

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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That's the problem when you find someone too stupid to even understand the analogies used to try and teach them. For someone it's just the story of "stuff happening to a little girl bringing food to her grandma in the woods".

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[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Same folks who thought Colbert was a conservative commentator.

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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Ahh, my second boyfriend.

He was an idiot but tried to convince me I was the idiot.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I mean, you dated him.

Same reason I don't think that highly of my exes

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago (4 children)

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

Glad to hear the ancient tongues still spoken 👍

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

A poor imitation. That's clearly none pizza with up beef, not left beef.

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[–] Mechoselachia@multiverse.soulism.net [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Rotate thine viewing device?

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

˙ɟǝǝq uʍop ɥʇᴉʍ ɐzzᴉd ǝuou ʇsnɾ s,ʇᴉ ʍou llǝM

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I'd watch gay mechs fuck.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Japanese businessman: AHHHHHHH! On top of the corporate headquarters!?

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No, that still leaves underage pilots going into combat and suffering immense mental trauma.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

Or you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.

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[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

I think that part too may have some political messaging.

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[–] MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 7 months ago (4 children)

A show about big fighting mechs isn't complete if the pilots aren't gay and in love and hate each other and exclusively communicate through monologues of their ideals on the current political climate.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

The human drama is the central focus, the mechs is just changing the set pieces.

there's only so many plots.

For example: It's a standard workplace love story exploring the ego and id. It's just that the workplace is an underground base where some dudes are letting teenagers pilot alien hybrid mechs to bring about the end of humanity.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 points 7 months ago

Mecha are useful in that they combine the "shining armour" and "gallant steed" of classic stories into a single object.

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Heated Circuit Rivalry

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Battletech is basically all of that except gay. I'm trying to think of any gay characters in Battletech...Rhonda Snord? Maybe a couple of the clanners?

Katherine Steiner-Davion (Victor's crazy sister; not her grandmother, Actual Katrina Steiner) might be considered aromantic...or a psychopath, which I think is an overriding factor.

I wonder if it's more illegal to be gay in the Draconis Combine or in the Capellan Confederation.

There's a "rumored" lesbian love affair between Heather Durant and Terens Amaris which results in house Amaris ruling over the Rim Worlds Republic, teeing up her great x5 grandson Stefan to essentially ruin civilization forever. So that's...kind of canon.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar...

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

If this is supposed to prove a mecha show with no gay stuff, I'm sure I can dig up some fanfic to argue otherwise.

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[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Fanfic doesn't count or you need to include all fanfiction. I don't think we should break open that particular pandoras box just yet

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 point 7 months ago

That’s just Bergerac!

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 point 7 months ago

omg i forgot about this one.

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[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (14 children)

What mecha story has gay shit? I'd like to watch it.

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[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

IBO too.

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[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 months ago

Most Gundam shows, Evangelion

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The most popular recent one is Brave Bang Bravern.

Keep in mind Japan has heavy censorship so a lot of the "gay mechas" are implied and subversive theming instead of openly gay.

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Squid in a schoolgirls ass is just fine and dandy but heaven forbid someone is gay.

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Censorship rules always end up stupid because individual morality isn't consistent and blacklists are never comprehensive

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Well yeah, someone has to think of the children (and their apparent love of tentacles that is only matched by the intensity of their homophobia).

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[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Darling in the Franxx

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Pacific Rim. If two straight people merge their minds through a psychic bridge, they both become bigender and then it's gay. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What happens if only one of the robits gets a roberection? Is that gay enough I don't know how the cybersex is supposed to work my great aunt warned me about people like me

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Look, it's really simple. Master Chief's suit has a fleshlight built into it and Cortana can control it. It's called the autojacker. Read Fall of Reach, it's all in there.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

is that what they call jacking on to the matrix?

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Now you're getting the picture! That's also where Handsome Jack gets his name from

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Am in the middle of watching Gundam Origins.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Is that the one that feels like Char is recounting the story of 0079 but in a way that makes him seem way more cool and badass than he was?

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

LOL I’ll let you know once I get around to it.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Pacific Rim?

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 23 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

It went easy on the politics, but they were an important part.

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Politicians = stupid

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 7 points 7 months ago

It's also a climate change allegory and there's a stupid wall that doesn't work.

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Transformers?

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

1980's? Yes.

2000's? No. Full of politics. Government waste, spies, Area 51 coverups, discussions of the deep state and military use in civilian areas. One of the movies referenced wars in the middle east.

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[–] Deceptichum 16 points 7 months ago*

1980s had political themes. Even the basic premise was a civil war between authoritarians and rebels fleeing a world ravaged by industrial over exploitation.

And one of the 80s episodes referenced the Cuban Missile Crisis as the US and USSR almost went to war over a missing jet.

Mind you it was a kids show from the 89s designed to sell toys, but it had some politics. Everything is ultimately politics, you can’t avoid it.

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[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

There was that episode where Optimus Prime discussed the AIDS crisis with Michael Dukakis.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I'm pretty sure you have to be in some kind of love with your partner to pilot one of those.

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[–] TaterTot@piefed.social 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

I swear on Char Aznabel's big red Zaku, if they take the yaoi and politics out of my big ass robot shows, I'm going to Operation British the Whitehouse!

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

And another one on Ireland.

And then retroactively drop one on the midwestern United States years before that totally happened despite nobody ever mentioning it.

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

What’s the original meme from?

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[–] Gobo@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

This was a TV commercial for string cheese initially. It was I want pizza minus the bread and no tomato sauce.

https://youtu.be/BG7273yDpdA

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks!

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[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

It's looks like You Can't Do That On Television but I don't think it is.

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 7 months ago

Commercial for Polly-o string cheese

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How about Robot Jox?

[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Post-apocalyptic is automatically political. Plus it is 2 opposing super powers. Sounds like a cold war that went hot.

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 7 months ago

It's robot fights instead of waging war? Like saying g gundam isn't political

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[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago

Vassiiiiilllllyyyyy!

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Gay stuff?

Shit maybe the reason I don't much care for mecha anime is because I've never seen one that was even a little gay. Er... Unless FLCL counts as a mecha anime. 🤔

[–] Mechoselachia@multiverse.soulism.net [S] 1 point 7 months ago

It certainly does! FLCL exists to reflect on mecha tropes.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago*

Exo-Squad from the 90s, didn't have gay stuff. But damn if it wasn't heavy on the politics.

[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 1 point 7 months ago

It's sad to see the proud Sgt. Aguado reduced to flipping burgers. Sure, he didn't solve the Snowflake case and didn't realize his Lieutenant was an escaped criminal dressed as a woman, but still...