Samsonator wrote:A 2-parter? Interesting, I look forward to listening to these
Spaceship Bruce wrote:REAL TALK: Mr. Seibertron, you should consider doing something about your mic or doing a little bit of post production on your recorded podcasts, if you're not doing so already. Seems like in pretty much every episode there's at least 1 moment where your volume shoots way up, distorting the signal & hurting my ears. I think you can find some free software to auto-level your recordings, which would fix the volume issue at least.
ScottyP wrote:Oh, I forgot to mention after the hilarity - Alternators Swerve does have GPS hands. Really fragile, sad, GPS hands. Mine broke the first time* I put his gun in his hand
*I was the second owner, it was already years old.
Seibertron wrote:
Are there gold plastic variants on Alternators Swerve? It looks like mine has that light tan colored plastic with no swirls or metallic flakes to be seen.
Blurrz wrote:The Deadpool game isn't released yet!
It was a bit difficult for me to grasp Ryan's view on 'everyone being a comedian' in MTMTE, but I think I understand, but truly there is nothing wrong with. Social Psychology says that crowd behavior trumps over everything and the Lost Light is the greatest example of it. Rodimus is the most lax leader and he makes everyone around him loosen up. In parties or groups in general, if there's that one funny person, aren't they going to make the rest of the group lighten up and laugh as well? That is what makes this MTMTE book feel human, and if that's not your thing, then it isn't for everyone, but I really think with Roberts is doing - by making the robots more human, makes MTMTE attach to readers like nothing before. This series is a hit on social media, tumblr, deviantart, twitter, etc. They never had this before for Costa's run of Schmidt's reign.
You look at pop culture these days and isn't everyone, essentially, throwing humor around? Even as serious a movie as Dark Knight Rises is, there are moments where every character, at least once, says something funny. Contrast that to the Marvel Movies and they are overloaded with humor, and yet there are times when they can be serious. Aren't we all allowed a little humor, here and there?
I would also argue that not all the characters are trying to be comedians. Ultra Magnus is still very by the book. He's trying his hardest to, but obviously when there's a ship full of 200 hooligans and a no rules leader, things are going to break. Drift is so serious with his own ego that it's hysterical. Cyclonus. The DJD. Red Alert? The list goes on and on. Not every character is serious, nor is every character a comedian. If the book was either-or, it would be boring and not have the success that it has. Despite the opinions on their characters, one can't deny the popularity that MTMTE has achieved. This isn't because the Ongoing '09-11 sucked. Because except for for issues 22-24, it did. But MTMTE is actually really, really, really good.
Seibertron wrote:You guys are missing my point or I'm not doing a good job of explaining it. I have no qualms with sarcasm. We are all sarcastic and witty in our own ways. I don't have this issue with Robots In Disguise so I know it's the style of writing used on More Than Meets The Eye. I just feel like the sarcasm applies to everyone in this book. Everyone's sarcastic or a funny guy. I don't think that's normal. Since I've received pushback against this opinion I have from so many people, maybe I need to go through all of the Robots In Disguise books and find all of the "funny guy" moments so that I can either show myself that it's consistent with which characters are having a go at sarcasm or so that I can better demonstrate to all of you what my point is.
Seibertron wrote:Blurrz wrote:The Deadpool game isn't released yet!
It was a bit difficult for me to grasp Ryan's view on 'everyone being a comedian' in MTMTE, but I think I understand, but truly there is nothing wrong with. Social Psychology says that crowd behavior trumps over everything and the Lost Light is the greatest example of it. Rodimus is the most lax leader and he makes everyone around him loosen up. In parties or groups in general, if there's that one funny person, aren't they going to make the rest of the group lighten up and laugh as well? That is what makes this MTMTE book feel human, and if that's not your thing, then it isn't for everyone, but I really think with Roberts is doing - by making the robots more human, makes MTMTE attach to readers like nothing before. This series is a hit on social media, tumblr, deviantart, twitter, etc. They never had this before for Costa's run of Schmidt's reign.
You look at pop culture these days and isn't everyone, essentially, throwing humor around? Even as serious a movie as Dark Knight Rises is, there are moments where every character, at least once, says something funny. Contrast that to the Marvel Movies and they are overloaded with humor, and yet there are times when they can be serious. Aren't we all allowed a little humor, here and there?
I would also argue that not all the characters are trying to be comedians. Ultra Magnus is still very by the book. He's trying his hardest to, but obviously when there's a ship full of 200 hooligans and a no rules leader, things are going to break. Drift is so serious with his own ego that it's hysterical. Cyclonus. The DJD. Red Alert? The list goes on and on. Not every character is serious, nor is every character a comedian. If the book was either-or, it would be boring and not have the success that it has. Despite the opinions on their characters, one can't deny the popularity that MTMTE has achieved. This isn't because the Ongoing '09-11 sucked. Because except for for issues 22-24, it did. But MTMTE is actually really, really, really good.
You guys are missing my point or I'm not doing a good job of explaining it. I have no qualms with sarcasm. We are all sarcastic and witty in our own ways. I don't have this issue with Robots In Disguise so I know it's the style of writing used on More Than Meets The Eye. I just feel like the sarcasm applies to everyone in this book. Everyone's sarcastic or a funny guy. I don't think that's normal. Since I've received pushback against this opinion I have from so many people, maybe I need to go through all of the Robots In Disguise books and find all of the "funny guy" moments so that I can either show myself that it's consistent with which characters are having a go at sarcasm or so that I can better demonstrate to all of you what my point is.
Or perhaps its just James Roberts writing style that I don't personally care for. His writing seems very solid to me and seems to treat the overall story arc very good. I just don't care for the sarcasm being thrown left and right to whatever character needs it. I'm assuming James Roberts enjoys writing his characters in a sarcastic manner, at least that's how it comes across to me. Controlling that sarcasm to either a select few characters or to times in the book when it can be funny, instead of overused, would be greatly appreciated by me.
I felt the same way about Last Stand of the Wreckers. That book didn't do it for me either, but it was a big hit amongst many fans.
It's a good book. The "everyone-uses-sarcasm" just isn't for me.
worldsgreatest wrote:After listening to this completely I get the impession that everyone agreed to skirt the nature of Chromedome and Rewind's relationship. Matt called them "friends". They arent friends. They are one another's conjunx endura. They love one another. There is no ambiguity.
If it was purposely not expounded upon then: dirty pool sirs. Dirty pool.
Seibertron wrote:worldsgreatest wrote:After listening to this completely I get the impession that everyone agreed to skirt the nature of Chromedome and Rewind's relationship. Matt called them "friends". They arent friends. They are one another's conjunx endura. They love one another. There is no ambiguity.
If it was purposely not expounded upon then: dirty pool sirs. Dirty pool.
There are a lot of points that we'd like to discuss. I think it was more of a time thing. We recorded from 8pm until 11pm Central that night, which is midnight for the east coast part of our crew who had to be up in the wee hours of the morning. Just not enough time to talk about everything and I'm most definitely in the very early learning stages of learning how to control the conversation so that we don't ramble on (which I know I'm notorious for on the podcast) and get stuck on a point in the conversation.
Seibertron wrote:Are there gold plastic variants on Alternators Swerve? It looks like mine has that light tan colored plastic with no swirls or metallic flakes to be seen.
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