• Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Hasn’t seen this one yet. The bots seem a bit undertextured compared to the humans from the stills ive seen. Not a fan of that style.

    Honestly it would make more sense if they all went by neutral pronouns. Kinda odd that a species with, as far as I’ve seen, a very skewed gender ratio would have any concept of male/female.

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      2 months ago

      This particular set of organics are not Transformers, they are instead Terrans. So it makes more sense to have more genders and pronouns than what Cybertron offered. But at the least this series was never shy to show genders do not equate sex.
      Something a failed Malaysian runaway detests.

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        2 months ago

        I guess, it’s just odd to me that they’ve had a binary system despite not being split down the middle. There’s probably ways to justify it though.

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          Nonono, cybertron had enby characters. It just it makes more sense on Earth to have more genders, pronouns, and expressions than a war ridden Cybertron. From lore, our little planet is certainly more diverse.

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        Not sure if this is exactly what you’re talking about, but I remember Bionicle had exactly 1/6th of the population be female because the demographics were projected to be that. Such a weird way to do it given that most people who picked up those toys probably didn’t bother with the story, and there wasn’t really a way to tell they were female without reading up on it.

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    2 months ago

    “But shit I was pretty sure this truck was male!” - anonymous Transformer fan from Texas

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    2 months ago

    The “trans propaganda” remembers me whenever a background gay character was “gay agenda” or whatever, the same moral panicking just shifting focus but same bs overall

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        I got to say, a cisformer would be pretty convenient to own. It spends most of its time as a small fuel efficient sedan. But when it cisforms, its now a pickup truck capable of hauling a heavy load or towing a large trailer. That would be amazing!

        If anyone objects to me owning a sentient being, interpret the ownership as a sub/dom thing.

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        That seems to be a transformation, but of a lesser degree.

        A cisformer should be a car that distinctly retains its form as a car. It would be very difficult to change the form of such a car, meaning it would not have much scrap value.

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    2 months ago

    Idk the scene but it seems a bit silly.

    We need to save the world but can’t do that on an empty stomach. How about a picnic in the park?

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    2 months ago

    It’s funny when this Chinese Malaysian Cheong guy is probably not called Ian Miles on his passport.

    Like it’s very common for Chinese people to have an unofficial English name that they’ve chosen themselves.

    Preferred nouns for me not for thee