Given that by the time we're up to in the story Functionalism had been dead for millions of years and many of the people around were made during and for the war, it's probably more likely that "sports car shaped thing" was an easy to make alt mode for expendable troops.

maybe there's underground demolition derbies too

Every single sports car was one of those two jobs? Considering how many there seem to be....

Athletic Entertainment

It's mentioned in one issue that Bumblebee was a courier. The only other fast cars I can remember seeing in Functionist times were Blur and a couple of Stunticons, as racers.

i figured the sports cars were either racers or couriers.

Upper Class. They're clearly not made for manual labor.

Functionism only really makes sense for certain alternate modes like mining or construction equipment; where do things like sports cars fit in?

At least in the movies they can switch to a (similar) alt mode at will, it seems. Especially if they want to sell more toys per movie.

They are a race of adaptive machines. Maybe they were expected to change themselves to fit the role?

IDW-verse discrimination still made more sense than the backstory in TF: Exodus, where everyone's caste was assigned seemingly at random with no regard for their aptitudes (altmode or otherwise)

Lost Light is good too, so far.

I'm not terribly into Transformers in general, but I did mostly enjoy the More Than Meets The Eye series.

Which has been in the state constitution since 1946, but was never actually executed according to documents, and is currently not in effect because the German federal constitution, which takes priority over state constitution, has banned the death penalty back in 1949.

Huh. So next weekend, when the German state of Hesse will have its state election, there will also be a ballot about changing the state constitution... and one of the proposed changes will be abolishing the death penalty.

I really need to read those comics

Up to and including the fact that certain alternate modes could end up being classified as "surplus to requirements" and systematically murdered.

And in IDW comics where it is/was literally a form of apartheid where your alternate mode pretty much dictated how you were treated by society, what jobs you could pursue, pretty much everything.

We do get hints of that from time to time in Transformers, with stuff like some jets acting smug towards cars and whatnot.

"No shotgun of Mine is going to marry a rocket launcher" sounds like something that Targetmasters (or WFC Siege Micromasters) might say...

The characters are actually kinda nice. Sure a bunch of them are from New Jersey, but you get a few aliens too.. But if you do that, you might want to go digital delux verisons.

My only issue is that the aside from Fox, the looks of the characters are kinda bland. If anything, I'll at least get it on Black Friday, as they almost always have deals on the toys to life stuff.

Well I can tell you, if you are going physical version because you want the toys. The Switch version has the best Ship mount as you just slide the joycons into it. The PS4 ship mount is wired. The game itself is very good in my opionion. In some ways it starts to turn into an RTS without being an RTS. You've got to start focus on keeping your planets from being taken back over. It has a LOT to do. It does have some repitive missions, because well, trying to let you level up all pilots and ships and such. The switch version -ALSO- has starfox only missions and the characters are incorporated into the story.

How is Starlink anyways? Been thinking of getting the Switch version for StarFox, which is quite unusal for me, as I almost always pick the PS4 versions (favorite controller and I already have so many Trophys on it).

No shotgun of mine is going to marry a rocket launcher!

Should they be allowed to marry outside of their own caliber?

I'm conflicted on the subject of marriage rights for shotguns.

You say, "Damn it, what do you think this is, a shotgun wedding?"

What do you do if someone wants to bring their concealed-carry to your American wedding?

Benbot, I was streaming the PS4 version of Starlink

Ergo their reporting will have its own slant on the facts as they choose, not the most neutral way possible.

I find it sad to realize that the prestigious New York Times which I trusted a lot as a kid in fact has its own editorial agenda.

The end result is NOT that stupid bullshit gets equal coverage as reasonable arguments. That would be problematic in itself (the "false balance" bias), but the provlem is that the controversial stupid bullshit gets MORE coverage than the reasonable arguments.

The media doesn't want to miss the opportunity to report on a controversy, and as a consequence makes sure that the controversial statements reach an audience.

Because they realized that saying controversial shit is guaranteed to get coverage.

It's the same here in Germany. Our right-wing moron party is still a political minority, yet they succeed in driving the topics the media keeps reporting.

The main problem was that Trump was banking on controversy, and the media was reporting controversy because it gave them ratings.

"Fairness" was not the media's main problem.

Holy fish! Second life is still a thing?!?!

What were you streaming, Silverclaw?

Russian interference should have been fighting an uphill battle, but as far as I'm concerned we gave them a head start.

I disagree with Hillary being a good choice to run against Trump. Plenty of mixed feelings about her long before 2016 within our own party. When the DNC has to rig it's own primaries to get their chosen candidate running, maybe you shouldn't expect an easy landslide at the actual election.

It would have also helped if the US was also an actualy democracy where the candidate who gets the most votes wins, but hey.

You helped destroy western democracy, but hey, at least no-one can accuse you of bias... Oh wait, they did, still do, and are going to keep doing so as long as you report facts.

Hillary was a good choice to run against Trump, the big problem was the media crawling all over themselves to try and push the idea of fairness, and threw her under the bus to do so. Any hint of impropriety was treated as being exactly the same as actual proven criminal acts by Trump in order to avoid being seen as biased... and at the end of it all, he turned around and bit them for doing so because that's who he is.

Many right-wingers are using its name as part of our version of the term "libtards": "Left-green filthy".

It's the only of the "established" parties (it's almost 40 years old at this point) that has remained true to its principles.

Meanwhile, some uplifting news from Germany: While our big parties are rapidly losing voters, and our new "we're not really extreme" right-wing party is gaining voters, there is one other party that is scoring massive points, both in polls and the recent Bavarian state election: The Green Party.

I still think having Hillary run against Drumpf was a bad choice.

Well on the bright side, we know more people voted for HIllary than the cheeto.