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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Glad to hear the ancient tongues still spoken 👍

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

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Same goes for sci-fi in general

"tHeY mAdE sTaRtReK pOlItIcAl"

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 1 day ago (1 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".

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same folks who thought Colbert was a conservative commentator.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ahh, my second boyfriend.

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

I mean, you dated him.

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

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 59 points 1 day ago
[–] MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 day ago (3 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 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

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

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?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Heated Circuit Rivalry

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

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

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I think that part too may have some political messaging.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What’s the original meme from?

[–] Gobo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 23 hours ago
[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 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

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 21 hours ago (1 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.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

is that what they call jacking on to the matrix?

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

Most Gundam shows, Evangelion

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 day 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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[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Darling in the Franxx

[–] TaterTot@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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 drop a space colony on Australia!

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[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 1 points 21 hours 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...

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Am in the middle of watching Gundam Origins.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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