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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar...

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago

omg i forgot about this one.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

A poor imitation. That's clearly none pizza with up beef, not left beef.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

Glad to hear the ancient tongues still spoken 👍

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 50 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Same goes for sci-fi in general

"tHeY mAdE sTaRtReK pOlItIcAl"

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

680 episode seasons, from which only 3 episodes are not space Aesop’s fables.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Same folks who thought Colbert was a conservative commentator.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh, my second boyfriend.

He was an idiot but tried to convince me I was the idiot.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I mean, you dated him.

Same reason I don't think that highly of my exes

[–] MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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.

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?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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 3 points 11 hours ago

Mecha are useful in that they combine the "shining armour" and "gallant steed" of classic stories into a single object.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Heated Circuit Rivalry

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 36 points 19 hours ago
[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

What’s the original meme from?

[–] Gobo@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

This was a TV commercial for string cheese initially. It was I want pizza minus the bread and no tomato sauce.

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

It's looks like You Can't Do That On Television but I don't think it is.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 10 hours ago

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. 🤔

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

No, that still leaves underage pilots going into combat and suffering immense mental trauma.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

Or you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

Japanese businessman: AHHHHHHH! On top of the corporate headquarters!?

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

What mecha story has gay shit? I'd like to watch it.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

is that what they call jacking on to the matrix?

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Now you're getting the picture! That's also where Handsome Jack gets his name from

[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 14 hours ago

Most Gundam shows, Evangelion

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Darling in the Franxx

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] TaterTot@piefed.social 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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 2 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (6 children)
[–] snooggums@piefed.world 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

It went easy on the politics, but they were an important part.

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