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muddyjoe wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

muddyjoe wrote:Can't believe they missed out on making him a "Target"master.

Apparently, everything about this figure is meant to be nonviolent in nature.

The sword and gun accessories are absent. The missile pods in Optimus's shoulders are now meant to be drink canisters that he, in theory, could pop out of his shoulders for a drink. And the gun assembly from inside his trailer is supposed to fold up, attach to his arm, and act as an item scanner.

This Optimus isn't a warrior, he's a retail worker. Even his grill tummy now looks like a receipt!

So they think guns and swords are bad, but it's okay to market satanic and gay garbage merchandise to children and let grown men use the ladies room? Oy, vey.

Yeah, that Satanist stuff was debunked long ago, it was AI generated. Being a homophobe isn't cool and never will be, and Target is hardly the only place that doesn't look inside everyone's underwear before they enter the bathroom.

Emerje

Sabrblade wrote:Heh, to some people, everything is Satanic.

Check out an old 80s video called "Deception of a Generation" in which two men break down how G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, Rambo, He-Man, She-Ra, ThunderCats, Transformers, and more, were all Satanic propaganda. It's really silly.

Some merch had the logo and everything.

But yeah, some are real bigots for anything geek culture and it's sad.
Like a certain Matt Walsh, who is pretty based for society and moral stuff, but anything Geek, and off to the Dark ages we go!

-Kanrabat- wrote:Some merch had the logo and everything.

Please stop perpetuating false information. The images of a store display was created by an Facebook AI group while the clothing shown was entirely unrelated to Target. Unsurprisingly the lie was spread by loons on the far right that like to spread misinformation and conspiracies.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Some merch had the logo and everything.

Please stop perpetuating false information. The images of a store display was created by an Facebook AI group while the clothing shown was entirely unrelated to Target. Unsurprisingly the lie was spread by loons on the far right that like to spread misinformation and conspiracies.

Emerje

It took a while but I finally found out that usatoday.com is Newsguard certified at 89%. That's pretty good so that AI fact check out.

Still, it seems that it went under the radar of the many news content creators that I follow. It's baffling because this is pretty wild and would make for some entertaining content.

This is worrying though. If a lie can spread this much and that fast because of some AI trickery, this means ANYONE from ANY side can do it. Now more than ever, we should take everything we see online with a grain of salt. No matter if it's mainstream or not.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Some merch had the logo and everything.

Please stop perpetuating false information. The images of a store display was created by an Facebook AI group while the clothing shown was entirely unrelated to Target. Unsurprisingly the lie was spread by loons on the far right that like to spread misinformation and conspiracies.

Emerje

It took a while but I finally found out that usatoday.com is Newsguard certified at 89%. That's pretty good so that AI fact check out.

Still, it seems that it went under the radar of the many news content creators that I follow. It's baffling because this is pretty wild and would make for some entertaining content.

This is worrying though. If a lie can spread this much and that fast because of some AI trickery, this means ANYONE from ANY side can do it. Now more than ever, we should take everything we see online with a grain of salt. No matter if it's mainstream or not.

You aren't wrong, even Snopes didn't pick up the story witch is a little alarming. This is why I try to get my news from multiple sources through aggregates. Also why I refuse to join political parties. I know I mentioned far right loons before, but there are loons on the far left as well.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:I know I mentioned far right loons before, but there are loons on the far left as well.

Emerje

We do live in Clown World after all!

-Kanrabat- wrote:This is worrying though. If a lie can spread this much and that fast because of some AI trickery, this means ANYONE from ANY side can do it. Now more than ever, we should take everything we see online with a grain of salt. No matter if it's mainstream or not.

Man, lies can spread far and wide even without AI. Just look at how long the lie about Sideways was believed, and that one goes all the way back to 2005.

NGL, the lie about Sideways is much more interesting than the boring truth. Kinda wish that was something official that they kept up with behind the scenes.

I never heard that about Sideways before...

Heads up, Prime's shipping now.

Emerje

Looks like they are available in all the stores near me today. According to their app, it looks like all the stores near me got 2 each. Ordered mine for pickup.

I saw it at my Target today and was tempted to get it, if only for that Prime. Don't care for the trailer or the "dog."

I got mine from Robot Kingdom (in Canada here) along with Lunar Prime. Came in just a few days ago. I like the colors a lot.

TBH, I really like "Bulldog". It's hilariously out of place. It's exactly the dumb thing I want out of my collabs. It'll be with my other crossovers.

The only other version of the mold I have is Toxitron. I just wish Amazon Prime was a thing that happened - they'd make a great pair.