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The portrayal of Abdul Fakkadi as the stereotypical "evil Arab" prompted voice actor Casey Kasem, who himself was of Lebanese descent, to quit the Transformers series.

Fakkadi is loosely based on real-world politician Muammar Gaddafi, the leader of Libya at the time of the cartoon's creation, and an on-again/off-again antagonist of the United States.

Source: The Transformers wiki notes & IMDB

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/1/AAatkdAAC66_.jpg

Of course this came from a G2 episode. -___-

Reminds me of Seth Rogan's "The Interview", which infamously sparked outrage from North Korea with the Sony website leak. I'm also thinking of the Orc commander based off Harvey Weinstein in Lord of the Rings. It's interesting how this sort of thing can make a piece of media more memorable, especially in the wake of new controversy, but where do we draw the line between what's considered a righteous satirical jab & what's tasteless & offensive?

On one hand, I think seeing a pothead version of George W. Bush in Harold & Kumar 2 was pretty funny and also somehow thoughtful. Because hey, does he smoke pot? Lol. On the other hand,.....

Take any Christlike figure from media and we have an endless number of people who will find it distasteful for one reason or another. Either they're offended or they find it hokey or maybe a bit of both. I think The Matrix trilogy is a little guilty of that. Is it as obvious or offensive as "Fakkadi" tho?

Didnt Family Guy have to pull an episode over a joke about depicting Muhammad?

Tenlaar posted...

That is just flat out not true. 18-34 is the largest age demographic of people who play video games.

Is that the same statistic that claims that the average player plays an hour a day and that half of gamers are female?

Please share what you think that means about a separate statistic which claims that 76% of children under 18 play games.

I'm done with the internet now.

We have to remember that the audience of games is primarily a child ages 10-16 and that that audience begins to thin out as they approach college. It's important to reflect a positive worldview for them.

People still argue that the N64 wasn't a hunk of junk. Therefore, yes. We all need to be more tolerant.

1 was a technical marvel and offered a host of interesting single player/co-op scenarios along with a really great multiplayer versus setup.

2 onwards, idk

Um....

Basically, almost everything you see is a zombie in that game, so it's not exactly clear why the baby chickens were following you in the first place.

Even the seemingly regular humans behave in questionable ways, when you become the Horde. That one guy helps you solve a box puzzle. He'll just keep throwing it back until you win lol.... And then they try to trap you. It's strange. Was he leading you into the trap?

That event with the baby birds happens after the cornfield where you find the hatch to unlock the main hideout and secret ending. It's definitely suspicious.

The birds' behavior is sort of similar to that of mermaids or horde. They follow you. The hog follows you too, trying to kill you. So, I question whether or not the chickens were also being mind-controlled or actually trying to eat you or join your group or get you to join their group or something.

Some things in the game suggest that it's all a big experiment and a setup within a setup, like the miniature model of the ending scene you can see in the lab towards the end of the game. That everyone is just going through the motions under a controlled environment, but you can break free by unlocking the secret ending and deactivating yourself.

Maybe that one dead baby bird is a metaphor for the player, who is the odd man out, and needs to unplug themselves to be free. Lol

The game goes on until either (you) stop playing or die. XD

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-GalacticBass- posted...

Green isn't a race.

Ricemills posted...

weren't orcs and goblins are the same in LotR tho?

Goblins were smaller and more agile

Bigger ears, and bigger eyes

The_Creep_2020 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/3/AAeu1yAAC6bT.jpg

Distinctly not green. blue Stilton maybe, but not green.

Also weirdly Felicia Day

That's a particularly green orc in blue light.

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Were they green in the films?

Yeah

Orcs are dull green. Goblins are bright green.

or would they be yellow? or white?

I would be extremely interested in seeing Lord of the Rings done with a cast of dark skinned people.

would the orcs still be green?

is legit the best Transformers game ive ever played

and you can't even transform! Lol a total knockoff

Fans of G1 & shoddy flash games should check it out

On mobile! lol

Monke

He gets what? Sounded? Dafreak?

Books are better

Here's why!

But I won't watch past the first season

Berserk is a masterpiece

Attack on Titan started out as a brilliant take on the kaiju/giant hero genre but from what I've seen... skids to a halt around a sociopolitical / interpersonal drama. Ends up having shades of Guyver & Gundam, with a touch of Hayao Miyazaki. Evangelion or Akira she is not. Anyone really LOVE AoT past the first arc or 2?

Dawn of the Polygon vs Dawn of Photorealism

Close call tbh

Both trump the 2010's mulitplayer/social media age

Here's to hoping VR kicks off the new decade!!

Boba Fett getting fat while hanging out with Tusken Raiders? Just wouldn't happen, tbh

Boba Fett's voice changing to sound just like Jango Fett? Wouldn't happen

Boba Fett all of a sudden not coming across like a creepy sadistic quiet intelligence? Doubt

Boba Fett is arguably the most famous Wilhelm scream in Hollywood history. Didn't get the sense this show got that

They made him a little too much of a lame brain. Boba Fett in the original series was like a tiger. It stalks you and sneaks up on you, but if you catch it .. you shoot it and it's dead. Absolutely terrifying predator but still just a dumb animal at the end of the day. No match for a Jedi. Boba Fett in this series was the polar opposite. He looks kinda lame but ended up doing a bunch of cool stuff, and has a lot of bass in his voice. Not really near what the original had. Bulky. Indecisive. Honorable. Works well with others. Little slow on the draw.

Heartomaton posted...

Technically any of them with omnipotence or reality-warping powers do.

Yeah but it's all this extra stuff like throwing laser balls and psychic powers and shape shifting, with super strength, etc.

Pure and simple: To become invisible. To stop time. To fly.

Invisibility
Flight
Time manipulation (stop time)

The big 3

*Edit!
Come to freaking think of it. I don't think there's a popular hero out there who quite fulfills that fantasy.

Ar0ge posted...

Well I tried. See TC? This is what I was talking about.

No one wants to learn or educate themselves.

If it weren't for people like me, you'd be "arguing" your case with fanatics and non-contenders all day. Does that sound super compelling or something?

We covered selective breeding and discussing what constitutes theory vs what constitutes fact. What am I missing?

Ah, plantlife. Someone actually bought up the idea that a virus isn't a "living organism". Because it isnt advanced and sentient? Seems like quite the distinction.

How we think of ourselves can effect our behavior. Having the body or spirit of an animal and taking inspiration from animals isn't a bad thing. Tbh. ^.^

ellis123 posted...

Okay, seriously. You're making me laugh.

Thats what he said!!

he/she

Ar0ge posted...

Man, I'm REALLY trying here. I'm not being disingenuous. I'm genuinely trying to teach you something here. But I can only do so much. If you are unwilling to meet me half way, I don't know why I keep trying honestly.

Right now, do yourself a favor and look up/research what a scientific theory is, and how it's different from the common use of the word "theory". Until you do that and TRULY understand the difference, I fear this conversation will continue to go no where.

By the way, evolution is also demonstrable. And yes we have manipulated it and have been doing it for thousands of years with agriculture and dog breeding.

Pretty much none of the vegitables and fruits you eat are found naturally in the wild. They are a product of thousands of years of selective breeding.

Semantics and nitpicking

You want me to meet you halfway on what...? That a "scientific THEORY isn't just a theory"? Got it.

I'm not denying evolution. I'm acknowledging that there are holes in the theory which need to be filled before you call it a fact. Remember when people thought they came from neanderthal cavemen? Huge problem.

Awesome point on selective breeding. Is that evolution?

Do you consider synthetically hybridized plants to be evolution ?

Do you consider AI to be evolution?

For many of us, what our bodies are born with is not necessarily more important than what we learn, where we are born, and how we train our minds. For many people, THAT is human. The ability to empower yourself through education, and live in an advanced society, to drive a car, to vote, to discover who you want to be a take charge of that development. These are simply not goals which other creatures on earth will directly identify with on an individual level at least. Even relatively complex social structures in various animals (like apes or dolphins or ants) lack the sheer complexity of a human on both a philosophical level and a technological level, and

As far as I'm aware, we can tell it either coincides with OR predates the ice age. Those are some big shoes we're stepping in here. Have people changed much since then? How about the rest of life on Earth? Part of me wants to say human was biology's way of saying evolution isn't good enough, if you can see the irony there.

ellis123 posted...

MFing lol.

<__>

Wot

Ar0ge posted...

We actually do make a distinction between bacteria and fauna. To start, bacteria are NOT animals. Bacteria is its own separate category of life along with plants, animals, and if you didn't know, fungi.

And please please PLEASE educate yourself on what a scientific theory actually means. Because it does not mean what you think it does.

For example, gravity is a scientific theory. But you wouldn't say gravity is not a fact. So why make that mistake with evolution?

Ar0ge posted...

We actually do make a distinction between bacteria and fauna. To start, bacteria are NOT animals. Bacteria is its own separate category of life along with plants, animals, and if you didn't know, fungi.

And please please PLEASE educate yourself on what a scientific theory actually means. Because it does not mean what you think it does.

For example, gravity is a scientific theory. But you wouldn't say gravity is not a fact. So why make that mistake with evolution?

I feel like you have to be arguing disingenuously here....

Gravity exists. It's clearly demonstratable.

Exactly what gravity is.... Remains in theory and actually in that case, largely theory.

Also, the discussion of extraterrestrial life seems to differentiate between sentient & non-sentient, or advanced life. Do we not give ourselves the same distinction?

For example btw

If something non-evolutionary like mutation or tampering occurred to create human biology, one could argue that we did not come purely from an evolutionary background. When we genetically alter a something in a lab, is that evolution? Are we coaxing and manipulating evolution?

Also, XD

What would constitute a non-living organism? Oxymoron

YWS-is-King posted...

@Xethuminra

The definition of animal is A living organism that feeds on organic matter.

Humans are, by definition, animals.

There is no way to dispute this.

YWS-is-King posted...

@Xethuminra

The definition of animal is A living organism that feeds on organic matter.

Humans are, by definition, animals.

There is no way to dispute this.

You have just described a Venus Fly-trap

Ar0ge posted...

Some of this is actually really wrong...

We don't differentiate between flora and fauna based on just intelligence and locomotion... Those are NOT the main difference.

Also.... A scientific THEORY isn't "just a theory.... It's the highest level an idea can be elevated to in science.

Evolution is a fact. No questions about it.

What is the main difference? Do you make a distinction between bacteria & fauna? We have native bacteria. That doesn't make you a fungus or whatever XD

Evolution is a theory. A theory is a theory. We have evidence. The evidence is a fact. Genetics are a fact.

Human descended from animal =\= human is animal

How did life begin btw? Who is to say that humans aren't an animal's true form?

Human beings are not widely accepted as "animals". Even the evolutionary ancestry thing is still just a really really really strong theory, because we aren't super clear on a few of the details. Lots of missing links in the reptile/insectoid/amphibian life to mammal or avian. Tbh.

Anyway, all else aside, we make a distinction between flora & fauna based pretty much on Intelligence & locomotion. Those are the main differences. Plants dont walk upright. They don't talk. Y'know?

....We are unlike any other creature on earth. We are smart. We wear clothing.

Sure, youre genetically pretty close to a chimp, but then again...

Well, it's almost like saying you ARE your mother and father. For some people this is more true than others, but in no way are you literally the same organism. Part of us is animal. Part of us is not. At this point, I think scientifically the human race could best be described as.....

Higher plane-reaching cyborgs. Very, very primitive cyborgs.

There are those who subscribe purely to higher planes vs those who subscribe purely to cyborg life

The Guardians are all pretty close to their original counterparts, minus Star Lord who is represented instead by the Nova Corps

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/5/AAatkdAAC5-b.jpg
Rocket Raccoon actually looks MORE like an actual freaking raccoon haha

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/6/AAatkdAAC5-c.jpg
Groot is pretty much 1 for 1. Honestly. It's really close. Different personalities tho.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/7/AAatkdAAC5-d.jpg
Nova Corps/Star Lord

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/8/AAatkdAAC5-e.jpg
Yondu's big red fin from the sequels is a callback to his design from the books

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/9/AAatkdAAC5-f.jpg
Nebula, as you can see, is pretty much straight out of the comics as per this art from the 90's

Sources: Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/8/AAatkdAAC5-K.jpg
Thanos's original design was much closer to that of the comics

Source: Avengers

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/9/AAatkdAAC5-L.jpg
Then there's this little gem, also from an after-credits scene

Source: Doctor Strange

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/0/AAatkdAAC5-M.jpg
Kate Bishop gives us this charming drawing of a classic costume for Hawkeye

Source: Hawkeye

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/1/AAatkdAAC5-N.jpg
Falcon's new outfit is basically straight out of the books

Source: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/2/AAatkdAAC5-O.jpg
Here's a shot calling back to Ego's original design from the source material. A planet with a giant face, basically.

Source: Guardians of the Galaxy 2

Absolutely

In fact, I argue that mammals are exactly that. A foreign consciousness highjacking a body.

What if afterlife exists, but it's horrible for everyone?

How horrible?

Like Bosch levels of inhumane treatment for all eternity until your mind permanently collapses in on itself and then you spend the rest of it in an abstract state of semi-consciousness in bewilderment & confusion as your perception of reality spirals out of control and you are completely helpless, unable to do anything about it? Like no matter what? Like, hook your brain up to a laptop, open up your stomach, and replace your tendons with puppet strings levels of horrible?

Or, like, just mildly annoying?

What type of horrifying we talking here?

I think, presumably, on a long enough time scale... There becomes no difference either way

J-Bro was an honorary Goonie, at best

He was the brother of a Goonie, to be more specific. Anti-Hero Rival status

The mods and that Halo space station evoke a notion of Knights of the Old Republic

Is that something you wanna see?

Ok ok

In hindsight....

Two things. 1. This is what I was complaining about in Mando season2. Nice guy Boba Fett doesn't work. On the other hand (2).... Exploring this character arc to explain how and why he became a nice guy sorta fixes the one glaring problem from the Mandalorian show: wussified Boba Fett for seemingly no good reason. Now we have a good reason. They also did good things with Grogu's training. That episode was awesome.

In a way, for all its faults, this mends a few big plot holes from the Mando show

Want Mando: The Movie

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/6/AAatkdAAC59W.jpg
Quicksilver. Bonus points for bringing back the actor from the First Class series. As a Fonzie joke. Weird.

Source: also WandaVision

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/7/AAatkdAAC59X.jpg
Loki lol
Source: Loki

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/8/AAatkdAAC59Y.jpg
Original Thor!..
...... Kinda

Source: Spider-Lad: Homecoming

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/9/AAatkdAAC59Z.jpg
Shirtless Shang-Chi. Classic. And this is from a fight sequence.

Source: Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/9/0/AAatkdAAC59a.jpg
Abomination from the same movie
...
Now with webbed goblin ears!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/6/3/AAatkdAAC58_.jpg
Did someone say "ass"?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/6/AAatkdAAC584.jpg
Source: Captain America: First Avenger

kinda hard to tell in the picture but that is actually Chris Evans lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/3/AAatkdAAC581.jpg Source: WandaVision
Featuring: Wanda & Vision lol

lol

Still have no interest in watching the show

....ah. so this is what it feels like to be a manga chad. Not that the latter portions of the manga are that good either

My mind goes to the fight between Obi-Wan and Vader in the original Star Wars...

.... sorta sticks out like a sore thumb.

At the same time, we laugh at Anakin vs Obi-Wan in Episode 3. Gotta find a balance.

This ain't it. But it almost is. Gotta wonder whether it was from a lack of ability or a lack of trying.

A mixed bag

I like the good and I dislike the bad. The Rancor scenes were awesome. Seeing Grogu get half-assed was not. Watching Cad Bane get his ass whooped Tusken style was awesome. Seeing a shootout with accuracy comically worse than A New Hope was not. Watching the mayor and co get assassined was awesome. The fact that there was an after-credits scene was not. I like the idea of Boba Fett running the place to met out jobs and facilitate trading. I don't like the mix of quality. Shoddy special effects can be touched up in the future. Bad writing cannot. The prequels, for example, will never be saved by any amount of remastering. This was ok at best, but Mando S3 needs to up the quality again. I for one won't be sticking around for churning from Star Wars. It really wasn't acceptable then and it isn't acceptable now.

Please don't fuck up the Old Republic

Your audience is a family, not a child.

I'm fucking excited.