So awesome. That right there, is a devoted fucking fan.
Also, Scott McNeil is pretty great, if not a little strange. One of my favorite VA's for sure, largely thanks to Beast Wars and Gundam Wing. He's also the subject of one of my favorite Pony Stories.
i'm sort of an acquaintence of the man, a friend of mine is a good friend of his, so i've hung out with him at conventions and stuff
he's a strange man
the one time, we were sitting in the hotel bar and he was reading out loud some erotic fanfiction that was given to him earlier that day at his autograph booth by some stupid fangirl
it was beast wars erotic fanfiction, involving dinobot and rattrap (scott voiced both characters)
he was doing a dramatic reading in the proper character voices and stuff
then he decided to go off-script and it became crossover stuff with other characters he did and john wayne for some reason
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edited September 2008
haha yeah, i remember that story. that was almost as good as his raksha stories.
Okay so back in the day I used to be into online RPGs. After I stopped partying n shit I kind of became an internet recluse for a while so I had free time out the whazoo.
And I got really into online text-based RPGs. MUDs and stuff. In particular, there was a couple Transformers based ones I was fond of.
A fixture in that community, a sort of celebrity of sorts, was this chick who called herself Raksha.
Seriously. Well, except most of the "fun facts" section. Only the first two parts of that are true.
So Raksha played at a couple of the games I played at, and through that I was exposed to her insane "philosophy" about how the Decepticons were the heroes and Soundwave was like a "shaman" of the Decepticons and her "revolutionary" new game Decepticon Dominion.
She tried really hard to get me to join, and eventually, curiosity got the better of me. Terrible mistake.
I had to make up my own character, because every pre-existing character was either taken or "reserved for story use" (ie she wouldn't trust other people to play them).
Now, a brief aside: I suck at making up original characters for these things. It's not a lack of originality or nothing, it's just that... I mean, playing MUDs is pretty close to writing fanfiction in and of itself, and creating your own original character seems so much like "Mary Sue" creation. I avoid doing it. I'm not playing a Transformers RPG so I can make up my own crazy awesome dude, I am doing it so I can pretend to be Springer or whatever alright.
Okay, so, I make a dude at first. Autobot guy. She's like "NO! AUTOBOTS ARE EVIL!" and I am like "yeah, yeah, okay, I know, I am okay with that though. I like playing villains sometimes, it's fun."
And she's like "NO YOU CANNOT PLAY AN AUTOBOT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING WITH ANYONE ELSE EXCEPT FIGHT THIS IS NOT A COMBAT SIM OKAY"
Okay, okay. So I make an original character. The character isn't actually original. It's basically just Springer but Decepticon. Same personality and stuff. Even is a triple-changer that turned into a car and a helicopter. Shit I think I even gave him a name that was like "Wrecker" or something. (For people who don't know jack about the old TF comics, Springer led a group of Autobots known as the Wreckers).
Basically, I wanted to see if she'd even notice the switcheroo. She didn't.
So, I actually got to play the game.
Oh my god.
You guys have been around the internet. You've seen White Power sites and shit, right? It was like that. You know how White Power sites try to sound all positive and clean and praise "only the good parts" about being racist and ignorant? That's what it reminded me of. Of being in a Neo-Nazi's house and seeing a big fat portrait of Hitler that's all flattering and in soft colors.
And that's not because I equate Decepticons with Nazis or something retarded like that. No, I'm comparing the devotion. The slavishness. The goose-stepping, everyone-salute-at-once praise for a fictional group of cartoon space robots!
The comparison doesn't end there. Because I was making a new character, I got to sit through an "Induction Ceremony" RP thing. Holy shit, it was deeply uncomfortable to read. Her rhetoric and writing, the things she was talking about, the way it was written, sounded like it was copy-pasted from Stormfront.
All of this would be fine, if the point was to invoke that sort of imagery intentionally to underline the evil of fictional villains. Sure, why not?
But the point was that she believed these people were the good guys.
She was praising these sorts of mindsets and attitudes and holding them up as admirable. It was like I got a tiny peak into someone else's creepy fantasy world that involved Nazi Robots From Space.
So, what did I do?
Remember when I talked about the replacing character names fanfic thing I did earlier? Yeah, actually I thought of it here first.
I copied the logs from her "induction" RP thinger, from her big speeches when she was RPing as Megatron, and I just did some word replacement. Replaced Empire with "Reich", Decepticon with "Aryan", Autobot with "Jew", etc.
Then I posted it, coupled with an unedited version, to a USENET group she posted on.
I was informed, via email, I was banned from Decepticon Dominion for, and I am quoting here, "Prime-level treachery"
I thought she was just really detached and off, until I read this.
TLDR: Raksha is completely incapable of having an opinion about, nor arguing with, anyone without relating it to Transformers and her baseless fanatical adoration of Megatron.
Jesus
A link to ED
That was a good summer
For the shit I occasionally give Goatmon about being a furry, at least he takes it in stride
You haven't seen fucking insanity until you've seen a butthurt furry try to get the EDiots to take down his page
It never happens
People who complain about derogatory things written about them on the Internet only give those things credence. If it wasn't true or if it was horribly exaggerated you would laugh and shake your head and take it all in stride, and if it really wasn't true eventually people would forget about it, or it would just become a little joke that comes up every once in a while.
People who complain about derogatory things written about them on the Internet only give those things credence. If it wasn't true or if it was horribly exaggerated you would laugh and shake your head and take it all in stride, and if it really wasn't true eventually people would forget about it, or it would just become a little joke that comes up every once in a while.
I should track down a few of the arbchat links
Arbchat was a mock trial, in which we allowed the offended party to "plead their case"
I put it in quotes because we didn't care, shit stayed up
And some of the pure rage and vitriol and fake legal threats were just wonderful
I'll subject you all to it's er . . . antimatter wonders.
Okay apparently she didn't write it persay. I asked around and she pretty much told the guy what to put down and tried to hide her involvement until it was released.
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I'll subject you all to it's er . . . antimatter wonders.
Okay apparently she didn't write it persay. I asked around and she pretty much told the guy what to put down and tried to hide her involvement until it was released.
Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
Trying to paint the Decepticons as anything less than pure evil and the Autobots, particularly the original Autobots, as anything but totally awesome and good is just so utterly wrong
There isn't some alternate universe where that is the case, because it simply cannot be
Trying to paint the Decepticons as anything less than pure evil and the Autobots, particularly the original Autobots, as anything but totally awesome and good is just so utterly wrong
There isn't some alternate universe where that is the case, because it simply cannot be
For being an evil overlord he sure looks like he got the shit kicked out of him.
Even Megatron took the time to look nice before delivering an ass whupping.
Trying to paint the Decepticons as anything less than pure evil and the Autobots, particularly the original Autobots, as anything but totally awesome and good is just so utterly wrong
Funny you say that, because while there were certainly wholly evil Decepticons, as a whole they certainly weren't. Megatron, for example - "Peace through tyranny."
Trying to paint the Decepticons as anything less than pure evil and the Autobots, particularly the original Autobots, as anything but totally awesome and good is just so utterly wrong
Funny you say that, because while there were certainly wholly evil Decepticons, as a whole they certainly weren't. Megatron, for example - "Peace through tyranny."
Megatron wouldn't subscribe to that philosophy if he weren't one of the most powerful beings on Cybertron though
It's super easy to say "peace through tyranny" when you plan on being the tyrant
Well, actually looking at some of the bios and stuff for Shattered Glass, it's not really too much like Raksha's crazy ideas. It's more like the Autobots and Decpticons switched places in terms of their role in the story.
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So awesome. That right there, is a devoted fucking fan.
Also, Scott McNeil is pretty great, if not a little strange. One of my favorite VA's for sure, largely thanks to Beast Wars and Gundam Wing. He's also the subject of one of my favorite Pony Stories.
Man, no shit. The stuff he told about Raksha...
well, lemme throw out another quote. Then I should probably head to bed.
I want to see it.
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TLDR: Raksha is completely incapable of having an opinion about, nor arguing with, anyone without relating it to Transformers and her baseless fanatical adoration of Megatron.
I still have no clue how it got approved.
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A link to ED
That was a good summer
For the shit I occasionally give Goatmon about being a furry, at least he takes it in stride
You haven't seen fucking insanity until you've seen a butthurt furry try to get the EDiots to take down his page
It never happens
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Every thread I post in is tangentially related to Transformers, because I get asked where I get my av/sigs from like once every day.
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http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=2139
don't know which one is her's, but here's a link with quite a few of the mosaics.
I should track down a few of the arbchat links
Arbchat was a mock trial, in which we allowed the offended party to "plead their case"
I put it in quotes because we didn't care, shit stayed up
And some of the pure rage and vitriol and fake legal threats were just wonderful
These aren't so bad, actually. Most of them seem to range from mediocre to fairly decent.
Not so much of the crazy nonsense, rather just some interesting story ideas, and some of them have pretty neat art.
yep
I'll subject you all to it's er . . . antimatter wonders.
Okay apparently she didn't write it persay. I asked around and she pretty much told the guy what to put down and tried to hide her involvement until it was released.
here -
https://medium.com/@alascii
I know it makes it more emotional. I can totally feel his black emotions.
Those poor Jewcepticons.
Coran Attack!
There isn't some alternate universe where that is the case, because it simply cannot be
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http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Shattered_Glass
Oh lordy.
WHAT A TWIST
Boy is my face red
Well, my point still stands in regards to the original Decepticons and Autobots and not some weirdass parallel dimension
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EVIL FACIAL HAIR
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Okay, I would probably pay money for one of those.
And I never buy transformers anymore.
I don't want Pimptimus Prime that badly.
Even Megatron took the time to look nice before delivering an ass whupping.
Funny you say that, because while there were certainly wholly evil Decepticons, as a whole they certainly weren't. Megatron, for example - "Peace through tyranny."
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Megatron wouldn't subscribe to that philosophy if he weren't one of the most powerful beings on Cybertron though
It's super easy to say "peace through tyranny" when you plan on being the tyrant
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