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  1. Tuxedo Prime

    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    And now you know.... why I use that particular image when the Japanese G1 cartoon continuity rears up like Hojoni.
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    That's as may be, but did we hear that name in the broadcast episode? Even if we did, conflating "Primacron's assistant-Oracle" with "Beast Machines-Oracle" is just as much a later retcon as conflating "Creation Matrix" with "Matrix of Leadership", or putting Optimus' spark chamber in front of...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    A suggestion will hint at an explanation, but if it's not spelled out we can't really say we have an explanation per se. Still, a quick jaunt to TFWiki tells us that a vague hint about Primacron's unnamed assistant (whom Japanese G1 source texts would years later conflate with Vector Sigma and...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    I wouldn't say that fans forget, at least not completely. For more than once someone has asserted that Sunbow-Mindwipe must have been a Unicron cultist, per his line re: "the powers of darkness", only to be reminded that it isn't necessarily so, as a strict reading of Sunbow continuity would...
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    Linkara covers Transformers... again

    I think that the Daniel Witwicky hate brigade largely got things out of their system with the intro/prologue to 3H's Beast Machines Wreckers comic (where Daniel and Wheelie die in a battle against an army of Nightbirds).
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    That had been my assumption as well, even prior to the era of Multiversal Singularities. Instead of falling into and reformatting inert planetesimals (and as an aside, Furman's origin doesn't *quite* gel with Budiansky's original Saturn-size estimate for Cybertron, though that's usually...
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    Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere

    Well, I couldn't resist teasing him a bit with my "Portrait of Markiplier" post. (Also throwing in a Morbius meme reference, because that's just how I am). At least the main event (with secret Halloween treat video link!) was appreciated by some. 🙂 I mean, if you're going to talk about AI art...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    Oh well, sure, of course in Japan's G1 cartoon continuity, such would happen, but as we all know Japan's G1 cartoon continuity is the "and the kitchen sink, too" of continuity mashups. As usual, I blame MegaZarak. 🙃
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    Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere

    Ah. Well, I think my modest contributions have counted (though for the Halloween/AI art commentary special I wanted to curate a certain mix of styles). Not having gotten any feedback from the primary curator, I was a little worried that i might have Done It Wrong.
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    I'd asked Sabrblade to post the news in question here, but having waited a while I guess I'll do so myself.... So, the promotional video here has, among other things, recreated Toei-style animation to illustrate the previous war. By itself, such means little, as Sunbow footage was directly...
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    "Welcome to the Literature Club! 💓"

    November is a month for memory. This post, however, is going to go back along a different -- and more poignant -- track than the recent fare. Before the Literature Club, before "You and Me and Her", there were... the Disability Girls. Now you may well think "wait, a bunch of weeby 4channers...
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    Florida, Florida, Florida

    One would think that, but quite a bit of this culture-warring has had an underlying attitude of "I'm perfectly willing to cut off my nose to spite your face," so....
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    Florida, Florida, Florida

    And the Galactic Starcruiser experience is already groaning under the combined weight of both price points and expectations....
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    Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere

    Despite making several contributions, I'm still not sure if I fully grok the bakery thread....
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    Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere

    I mean, I might trade this one in for a Last Bot Standing-inspired one.... but the one I have works well enough.
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    "Welcome to the Literature Club! 💓"

    Y'know, the "It's Yuri time" post was supposed to be a joke. I didn't expect anyone to actually make a mod to that effect.... Well, something to enjoy with the Halloween candy: a spooky VN story titled: "Midnight Date."
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    Transformers: EarthSpark

    Would you mind terribly adding this to the Stream Taxonomy thread? I think it makes for some more circumstantial evidence to keep us all guessing. 🙂
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    Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere

    "Popular culture" isn't a monolithic structure anymore, is all. I first noticed the cracks back in the mid-aughts, when 2 million viewers an episode on basic cable made Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica watercooler-discussion television with critics asking why we aren't all watching this --...
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    Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere

    The Tube of You has become another one of those fragmented "By any chance do you know..." zones. I remember a few years back some pollster asking if I recognized some other online personality -- I want to say one of the Paul brothers? It was a while ago. I didn't, but then they didn't know of...
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    Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere

    Someone with her own Wikipedia page, as it turns out. From the intro: Gibi ASMR (/ˈdʒiːbiː/; born December 19, 1994) is an American ASMR performer, YouTube personality, Twitch streamer, and cosplayer. Not that I didn't like the guesses....


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