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".
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.
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.
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?
Katherine Steiner-Davion (Victor's crazy sister; not her grandmother, Actual Katrina Steiner) might be considered aromantic...or a psychopath, which I think is an overriding factor.
I wonder if it's more illegal to be gay in the Draconis Combine or in the Capellan Confederation.
There's a "rumored" lesbian love affair between Heather Durant and Terens Amaris which results in house Amaris ruling over the Rim Worlds Republic, teeing up her great x5 grandson Stefan to essentially ruin civilization forever. So that's...kind of canon.
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!
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.
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
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.
2000's? No. Full of politics. Government waste, spies, Area 51 coverups, discussions of the deep state and military use in civilian areas. One of the movies referenced wars in the middle east.
Shit maybe the reason I don't much care for mecha anime is because I've never seen one that was even a little gay. Er... Unless FLCL counts as a mecha anime. 🤔
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...
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Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 90 pts · 184d
Same goes for sci-fi in general
"tHeY mAdE sTaRtReK pOlItIcAl"
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 184d
680 episode seasons, from which only 3 episodes are not space Aesop’s fables.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 29 pts · 184d
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 · 23 pts · 184d
Same folks who thought Colbert was a conservative commentator.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 184d
Ahh, my second boyfriend.
He was an idiot but tried to convince me I was the idiot.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 184d
I mean, you dated him.
Same reason I don't think that highly of my exes
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 64 pts · 184d
MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 50 pts · 184d
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 · 12 pts · 184d
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 · 8 pts · 184d
Mecha are useful in that they combine the "shining armour" and "gallant steed" of classic stories into a single object.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 184d
Heated Circuit Rivalry
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 184d
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?
Katherine Steiner-Davion (Victor's crazy sister; not her grandmother, Actual Katrina Steiner) might be considered aromantic...or a psychopath, which I think is an overriding factor.
I wonder if it's more illegal to be gay in the Draconis Combine or in the Capellan Confederation.
There's a "rumored" lesbian love affair between Heather Durant and Terens Amaris which results in house Amaris ruling over the Rim Worlds Republic, teeing up her great x5 grandson Stefan to essentially ruin civilization forever. So that's...kind of canon.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 184d
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 184d
Glad to hear the ancient tongues still spoken 👍
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 184d
A poor imitation. That's clearly none pizza with up beef, not left beef.
Mechoselachia@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 181d
Rotate thine viewing device?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 181d
˙ɟǝǝq uʍop ɥʇᴉʍ ɐzzᴉd ǝuou ʇsnɾ s,ʇᴉ ʍou llǝM
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 184d
I'd watch gay mechs fuck.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 184d
Japanese businessman: AHHHHHHH! On top of the corporate headquarters!?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 25 pts · 184d
No, that still leaves underage pilots going into combat and suffering immense mental trauma.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 184d
Or you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.
Gathorall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 183d
I think that part too may have some political messaging.
TaterTot@piefed.social · 16 pts · 184d
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!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d
And another one on Ireland.
And then retroactively drop one on the midwestern United States years before that totally happened despite nobody ever mentioning it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 184d
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 184d
Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar...
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d
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.
ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website · 2 pts · 183d
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
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 184d
That’s just Bergerac!
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 184d
omg i forgot about this one.
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 184d
What mecha story has gay shit? I'd like to watch it.
Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 184d
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 184d
IBO too.
belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 184d
Most Gundam shows, Evangelion
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 10 pts · 184d
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.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
Squid in a schoolgirls ass is just fine and dandy but heaven forbid someone is gay.
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 184d
Censorship rules always end up stupid because individual morality isn't consistent and blacklists are never comprehensive
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 184d
Well yeah, someone has to think of the children (and their apparent love of tentacles that is only matched by the intensity of their homophobia).
Maultasche@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 184d
Darling in the Franxx
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 6 pts · 184d
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 pts · 184d
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 · 5 pts · 184d
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 pts · 184d
is that what they call jacking on to the matrix?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 184d
Now you're getting the picture! That's also where Handsome Jack gets his name from
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 184d
Am in the middle of watching Gundam Origins.
Godort@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 184d
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?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
LOL I’ll let you know once I get around to it.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 184d
Pacific Rim?
snooggums@piefed.world · 22 pts · 184d
It went easy on the politics, but they were an important part.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
Politicians = stupid
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 6 pts · 184d
It's also a climate change allegory and there's a stupid wall that doesn't work.
radix@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 184d
Transformers?
MNByChoice@midwest.social · 11 pts · 184d
1980's? Yes.
2000's? No. Full of politics. Government waste, spies, Area 51 coverups, discussions of the deep state and military use in civilian areas. One of the movies referenced wars in the middle east.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 17 pts · 184d
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
There was that episode where Optimus Prime discussed the AIDS crisis with Michael Dukakis.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
I'm pretty sure you have to be in some kind of love with your partner to pilot one of those.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 184d
What’s the original meme from?
Gobo@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 184d
This was a TV commercial for string cheese initially. It was I want pizza minus the bread and no tomato sauce.
Objection@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 184d
https://youtu.be/BG7273yDpdA
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 183d
Thanks!
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 184d
It's looks like You Can't Do That On Television but I don't think it is.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 183d
Commercial for Polly-o string cheese
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
How about Robot Jox?
Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d
Post-apocalyptic is automatically political. Plus it is 2 opposing super powers. Sounds like a cold war that went hot.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 184d
Vassiiiiilllllyyyyy!
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 184d
It's robot fights instead of waging war? Like saying g gundam isn't political
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 184d
Gay stuff?
Shit maybe the reason I don't much care for mecha anime is because I've never seen one that was even a little gay. Er... Unless FLCL counts as a mecha anime. 🤔
Mechoselachia@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 181d
It certainly does! FLCL exists to reflect on mecha tropes.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 182d
Exo-Squad from the 90s, didn't have gay stuff. But damn if it wasn't heavy on the politics.
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 184d
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...