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[TheMightyP]

How would you even justify airing a children's cartoon based on a movie about USA military propaganda and weapon advertisement?

Worked for GI Joe

 

[Michael the Spikester]

How would you even justify airing a children's cartoon based on a movie about USA military propaganda and weapon advertisement?

I mean Avatar is also a show that involved genocide and racism (Towards the Fire Nation as seen in the episode where Zuko went to that town alone and was shunned especially towards the kid he befriended once revealing being a Fire Bender).

Also as Mighty said. It worked for GI Joe apparently. What difference would a Top Gun animated series make?

 

[Schnee117]

Worked for GI Joe

Finally gonna sell kids a Tom Cruise action figure until they get recalled because they all try to indoctrinate the kids into scientology.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

I wonder if like that NetFlix animated Fast and the Furious series if the main character would be a relative of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.

 

[TheMightyP]

Finally gonna sell kids a Tom Cruise action figure until they get recalled because they all try to indoctrinate the kids into scientology.

He kids, your teacher may put on Bill Nye the Science Guy every once in a while. Science rules? Wanna learn more, join our science club, Scientology. Together we can use science and take down these nondescripent terrorists from unspecefied foriegn country

 

[osby]

I mean Avatar is also a show that involved genocide and racism (Towards the Fire Nation as seen in the episode where Zuko went to that town alone and was shunned especially towards the kid he befriended once revealing being a Fire Bender).

Also as Mighty said. It worked for GI Joe apparently. What difference would a Top Gun animated series make?

I mean, the whole point of Avatar is that genocide and racism are bad.

Top Gun is about how warmongering is good because USA's enemies are always the bad guys and don't think about how weapon manufacturers are involved in the making of this movie.

 

[Schnee117]

I mean Avatar is also a show that involved genocide and racism (Towards the Fire Nation as seen in the episode where Zuko went to that town alone and was shunned especially towards the kid he befriended once revealing being a Fire Bender).

There's a world of difference between tackling those themes and being pure American military propaganda.

 

[Jondolio]

I mean Avatar is also a show that involved genocide and racism (Towards the Fire Nation as seen in the episode where Zuko went to that town alone and was shunned especially towards the kid he befriended once revealing being a Fire Bender).

I don't think you understand the Avatar's themes like, at all

 

[Michael the Spikester]

But what about GI Joe? Doesn't that kinda tackle the same thing as well?

 

[TheMightyP]

Now while I was kinda kidding, I'm not sure if they could get away with a GI Joe like show in 2022 nowadays. The world was way more conservative in the 80s (think Reagan and the Iran Contra Affairs + Cold War) and ultra patriotic. GI Joe and especially Top Gun were just military recruiting tatics.

In 2022, anti war sentiments are significantly more common, especially among millenials, so people are gonna be far more wary of it.

But what about GI Joe? Doesn't that kinda tackle the same thing as well?

Not quite. Avatar is an anti-imperialist story where a pacifist and his friends take down a war-mongering empire and do not kill unless 100% necessary. GI Joe is all about glorifying war and how the good guys win and the bad guys lose, and the good guys in this instance is America which is kinda the thing Aang and his friends fought against

 

[Hydreigonfan01]

Now while I was kinda kidding, I'm not sure if they could get away with a GI Joe like show in 2022 nowadays. The world was way more conservative in the 80s (think Reagan and the Iran Contra Affairs + Cold War) and ultra patriotic. GI Joe and especially Top Gun were just military recruiting tatics.

In 2022, anti war sentiments are significantly more common, especially among millenials, so people are gonna be far more wary of it.

I mean, Top Gun Maverick is looking to be the biggest movie of the year which is also American propaganda so...

 

[osby]

I don't think you understand the Avatar's themes like, at all

Why, don't you think it's racist to dislike people of genocidal imperialist nations?

 

[TheMightyP]

I mean, Top Gun Maverick is looking to be the biggest movie of the year which is also American propaganda so...

Tbf so are a lot of MCU movies. Ironically though, the Captain American films are more anti-American when you look into it.

 

[Jondolio]

Why, don't you think it's racist to dislike people of genocidal imperialist nations?

You joke but I think it really depends on whether or not the person in question did something bad

In the context of the show though, Zuko is literally the prince of the fire nation so the townsfolk's reaction to the reveal is completely justified

 

[TheMightyP]

You joke but I think it really depends on whether or not the person in question did something bad

In the context of the show though, Zuko is literally the prince of the fire nation so the townsfolk's reaction to the reveal is completely justified

Zuko also went through and entire arc of realizing the consequenses of his actions and shedding any imperialist bias he had and defected to realize his Uncle's dream. This is something that also happens irl and far more common than you realize, but they aren't really... beloved as Zuko.

 

[Jondolio]

Zuko also went through and entire arc of realizing the consequenses of his actions and shedding any imperialist bias he had and defected to realize his Uncle's dream. This is something that also happens irl and far more common than you realize, but they aren't really... beloved as Zuko.

Zuko's character arc is peak fiction

 

[TheMightyP]

Why, don't you think it's racist to dislike people of genocidal imperialist nations?

Genocide is based actually

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

So how about them Graphics

What about them? All I see are fun MK tracks

 

[TheMightyP]

What about them? All I see are fun MK tracks

But the graphics

 

[Schnee117]

But the graphics

Gamers spending more time analysing digital grass when they should be going out and touching it smh my head

 

[Pink Yoshi]

How about that Chuggaaconroy, y'all?

Spoiler

With Splatoon 2 finished, he says his next let's play is a game from his childhood. I'm thinking it could be one of two things:
1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2. A Pokemon game of some kind (maybe Let's Go as it is TECHNICALLY a game he could've played in his childhood, just remade. Could also count as a FireRed re-LP in that case)

 

[SnakeFighter64]

The only way I'd be down for a Top Gun animated series by Nick is if they got writers as good as that of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Because otherwise given Nick nowadays screw that.

A Quiet Place.

Imagine a horror-based animated series based on that?

But as if that would ever happen.

Also the following.

-Beverly Hills Cop
-Cloverfield
-Crocodile Dundee
-G.I. Joe
-Jack Ryan
-Meet the Parents
-Paranormal Activity
-Scream
-Sonic movie series
-Spy Kids
-The Bad News Bear
-The Crow
-The Godfather
-The Naked Gun
-The Nutty Professor
-The Ring

Yeah…. Nickelodeon is really all they got.

 

[TheMightyP]

Gamers spending more time analysing digital grass when they should be going out and touching it smh my head

My eyes only render at 720p, my PC renders at 10k Hyper HD. PC wins

 

[Noipoi]

How about that Chuggaaconroy, y'all?

Spoiler

With Splatoon 2 finished, he says his next let's play is a game from his childhood. I'm thinking it could be one of two things:
1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2. A Pokemon game of some kind (maybe Let's Go as it is TECHNICALLY a game he could've played in his childhood, just remade. Could also count as a FireRed re-LP in that case)

Clearly it's an epic troll and he's gonna launch straight into 500 episodes of Xenoblade 3.

 

[Jondolio]

My family is watching a friend's dog and he's so big and adorable

Spoiler

 

[Noipoi]

I want a Chinchilla, but my mom is deathly afraid of rodents.

Sad.

Ferrets are cool too but they smell like smash fans, so idk.

 

[osby]

Genocide is based actually

Yes because you can't spell Genocide without Geno

 

[Guynamednelson]

I want a Chinchilla, but my mom is deathly afraid of rodents.

Just because the chinchilla Pokemon is a neat freak doesn't mean chinchillas are clean. Hope you like cleaning up a million droppings every day.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I want a Chinchilla, but my mom is deathly afraid of rodents.

Sad.

Ferrets are cool too but they smell like smash fans, so idk.

Wait aren’t you making a game about a ferret?

 

[TMNTSSB4]

Harley Quinn’s 3rd season premiere kicked off to perfection as expected…especially the unexpected Joker song they decided to do that shouldn’t have been so damn good

 

[Wario Bros.]

One thing I want in the new season of Helluva Boss is to see Loona's backstory.

Like what was she doing before being adopted and what made Blitzo decide to adopt her?

 

[Michael the Spikester]

I finally finished watching season five of Camp Cretaceous.

Such a welcoming addition to the franchise. Better then what the World Trilogy gave us, not to say I didn't like them.

Spoiler

I had a feeling they were going to tease Fallen Kingdom's ending at the end.

Also doesn't Kenji have any living relatives he could of went to live with? Aunts? Uncles? Cousins?

If not I felt it would've made sense he live with Brooklyn and her family since they were dating.

Either way, overall enjoyed this series.

 

[Noipoi]

Wait aren’t you making a game about a ferret?

No.

Opossum

 

[SnakeFighter64]

No.

Opossum

So you should get one of those as a pet!

 

[Michael the Spikester]

And now...

Tis time to watch some Primal baby! **** yeah!

Spear and Fang go!

My family is watching a friend's dog and he's so big and adorable

Spoiler

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Husky mix I assume?

Also what an adorable buddy. ^_^

 

[Noipoi]

So you should get one of those as a pet!

I don’t think that’s legal.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I don’t think that’s legal.

if people can get tigers as pets, then there's probably a way for you to do a possum.

 

[Wario Bros.]

Internet is down so my options today have been cut down.

 

[Jondolio]

if people can get tigers as pets, then there's probably a way for you to do a possum.

Possum and Opossum are two different animals sis

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I never understood why Lopmon actually looks like a lop-eared rabbit but Terriermon looks nothing like dog