Lastjustice

It's called picking your battles. Discretion is the better part of valor as they say. You might burn bright with that attitude but you will not even burn half as long if you push the envelope too far on a constant basis. This thread likely only here because it's a holiday weekend(though sometimes the mods surpise me and let stuff go much longer than expected.), not because we're all too gutless to speak our minds. Anyone who knows my history knows I'll gladly nerdrage it up when I see fit. I say plenty of stuff around here I'm the minority on. WHile I've been busy and laying low, I'm sure I'll find something to tear apart in not too distant future. (Nolan has a movie project due out in a few months muhahaha.)

You want to believe it's all about being too PC around here and not because we like to conduct ourselves in a manner that maintains some level of respect while not kicking over too many hornets nest all at once that's your choice. People are expressing their views, or atleast stating they re disagreeing with getting too crazy about it. People here are not your enemy...not yet anyways.

As someone in the service you should know all about adapting to whatever rules of the place you are to survive at a given time. This no different. Running headlong into the banhammer won't make you a patriot of free speech. It make you just another poster who was shown the door. That is a completely avoidable outcome at this point.

In general you don't need wack people over head with some sort of ideal around here because if there's any truth to what you're saying you're often preaching to the choir. The people who probably really need their minds changed about whatever it is you feel are probably somewhere else. I have certain forum members that I commonly disagree with , but I respect their views(most the time heh.) and see value in their existence even if I never will feel same way they do.

This a great community I've been apart of 7 years, going on 8. So many geek and wonderful things I've learned about or seen as a direct result of running these boards. If you don't feel same way and wish to potentially toss that away thats your deal. While I've killed my share of threads I am not ready to excessively vocal with unpopular opinions that probably shouldn't be voice here in first place just to prove a point I didn't need prove. That's just me though.

Yeah soooo much I dont know where to begin. He lives up to his name of a New Dark Age.

First off, did you even like Transformers before the film? If yes, what version as there's been many continuity's. If no, then may be it wasn't for you. It doesn't make any one stupid for liking it, just like I hate coffee. It doesn't make everyone who drinks it unrefined mules for liking it. It's different tastes. I know history, and been in the armed force(USAF), but sometimes I just want a movie that's fun.

I like transformers because I always have. my inner 6 year old comes out in full force when I saw the trialer for first time. There's just something awesome about giant transforming robots beating crap out of each other.

Bunch of people I know liked the movies though ranging from my 50 something mom, my 70 year old coworker I borrowed my DVDs to, and 20 something Ex girlfriend who went to see Revenge of the fallen without after I showed her the first movie. My sisters kids loved it, as my nephew turned to me, and said thank you Mike for bringing me before movie was even over as he was that into it back when he was 5 for first film. I don't have to explain to them why Optimus Prime one of the greater fictional characters ever, they know and understand for themselves.

Are weak spots and thing I'd changed if I had chance. Absolutely, but as a huge fan of the Ip, even if I hated the films I couldn't deny how much it's done for the franchise. I see it as a win no matter what happens after the 3rd film. Sorry you hated the films and were surrounded by off duty. That said, you re overreactting a bit about.


(P.S. I love a good rant as much as next guy, but you went entirely too long without making enough points for all of the surplus.)

His plan was to change the past. If he wiped out all the autobots, he could always just conquested Cybertron in the past since restoring the original Megatron as the lone Cybertronian on Earth (due to fact he had his spark still.) would likely turn out badly. With no one to oppose the original Megatron he'd remained in charge of both Earth and Cybertron by time Beastwars Megatron(or 2) was born. He'd then have to defeat his namesake then for Cybertron, so by simply wiping out everyone and taking control of Cybertron in the past he'd rule both the past and present.....

Except for the fact he'd be screwed when Unicron showed if he blew away G1 Optimus Prime and the Matrix of Leadership. Ultimately there was entirely too much room for his plan to backfire and paradox himself out of existence. A very flawed and desperate plan...especially since he wins in his own timeline in Beast Machines anyways. (This is the set up for Beast Machines so not much of a spoiler.)

(pictures cowman's world"

"That crazed hero, Flamewar burnt half the jones district down including the school in a fight." -guy
" That punk, I can't stand that...Wait was he a filthy mutie?" - Girl
"No, he was some freak made in a lab but the guy he defeated was a filthy mutie." -Guy
"Ok, never mind then. Im ok with it long as that genejoke got what was coming ." -Girl

Right, because the ENTIRE freaking planet is this dense and short sighted?Thats hardly a good counterpoint. I'm willing to buy some nut jobs fit into the marvel scope, but given it's impossible for people tell at a glance what source a super's powers come from and the collective masses would just be fed up with them having fist fights on their front lawns after a point no matter where their powers came from.

Civil War is precisely where that train of thought would have lead you. Even in the X books the government is all about regulating them. You think weapons of any sort wouldn't be on the table as potential things they'd want to get their hands on. I mean that's what they're trying do with the hulk half the time. So your comment falls flat on it's face. You seem to have a weakness for incomprehensible stories.

I'm not saying it was aliens...but IT WAS ALIENS!

I agree. I think if he had another crack at it he'd hit a home run. Heck I'd love if they just tossed him in as Doom in one of the next Avengers films. Doom is too big of a villain to be tied down solely to F4 anyways. I liked most the cast of F4 other than Jessica Alba. She was by far the weakest link. We all know why she was there though.

Yeah my inner 6 year old wants to go cry in the corner after seeing that. Nicely done in anycase.

Why I say leave humanity as it is. I immediately think of the quote, "There is no aspect of the human condition that is alien to me." I feel like I understand myself better having to actually combat turning into a monster from having the darker side of life try to assert itself upon me than had I by default been incapable of ever going down that road.


I know what exactly has brought me to this moment. In my teen years something awful had happened(my crime alley.), and part of me truly did wish to lash out. (Magneto is right!) I asked myself why do I want to be good, is it because I fear the consequences of being evil? Is it something that I have been brought up to be, or is it something I wish to be? I decided at that moment my intiatial reasoning for being on this path didn't matter either way and I was to choosing to be good from this moment forward because it was what I wanted to be. I was master of my own destiny. Not because some super being would punish me, or some law said I couldn't be anything else.

Because of the things I felt and experienced I knew what to say to people I care about in times when they were thrown in the deep end. One of the people I care about most in this world is still alive because of the horrors I saw. If I could redo myself I'd have to let everything stand for if I was a fiber less of a man and couldn't save her I would have been devastated in ways the intial hell could never have. I would endure it all 1000 times for that.

If the world didn't have some sort of catalyst to create change the stagnation would likely be worse than crimes commited against us. We all come into this world damaged, but it's moment like I saw that cause us to admit it, and humble us.(seems like we have get our magic hammer stolen for a bit to see the big picture.) The only way for us to truly understand everything is to experience everything. I accept both the light and dark inside me. Only with them both am I whole. I refuse to let someone take that away from us.

I'm a Mac, and I refuse to be PC heh.

It's the apple I-dead.