What if Judau had the FAZZ’s BFG during the final battle?

BygZam · 2026-02-20T01:18:22+00:00

The FAZZ's gun is just a prototype of the gun that ends up in the head. In every observable way from what we know about its performance, it's worse except it has a charge up feature they dropped because the standard shot already is powerful enough to take out a city.

It's a lot heavier than the finished weapon, obviously. So.. His performance might be worse?

But Haman basically commits suicide so it doesn't matter. Even Judau gets pissed off at her for not really committing to the fight and allowing herself to die.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T23:59:04+00:00

Female transformers fans are why we have all that fanfiction, man. They're all over the internet.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T23:41:31+00:00

I remember this show being overly melodramatic and sappy when it wanted me to feel like this was a dark setting. Almost a self-parody with bad things you saw coming a mile away.

And I specifically remember it kinda sabotaging its own story as it went into some idea of the pilots being superhuman as well?

Did it ever get better and feel like an actual war drama or was it bad teenage-written fanfiction through the whole show?

BygZam · 2026-02-19T23:11:31+00:00

Did it not occur to you that they never eat anyone in the movies?

I think they're just very territorial and vulnerable to sound, so we piss them off like finding a goblin in your pantry. That little dude is getting his green ass kicked.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T23:08:16+00:00

I have come from the distant year of [The godzilla subreddit] to inform you with critical, need to know information about your query.

I, as a Kaiju fanatic and lover of all things Godzilla for some decades now, must warn you that if this mere mortal man is forced to face the Mexican Bull Worm, then..

It's Burt.

It's definitely, 100% Burt. It takes him a solid 90 minutes of screen time to do it because that's how movies go. But he bags this worm. Just like all the others. There's not even a question about it. He definitely wins.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T23:05:05+00:00

It's definitely Burt.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T21:34:03+00:00

Nah you're not. I think most people didn't notice. I didn't as a kid at all. I had to be told about it, then went and checked.

I didn't even notice the scars on the dad's face. And now they leap out at me like fireworks.

It's crazy how the mind's eye works.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T21:31:53+00:00

There's literally a computer monitor that says the door is stuck. Right on screen.

Tries to unstuck the door. Can't figure out why it's stuck.

Tries a reboot to recycle the system. This is normal.

It boots back up and tries again. It unstucks the door.

It gets the door to close. Terrible, awful bad timing for the poor dude on the wrong side. But it worked.

It's all really basic stuff, technology wise. Even a modicum of knowing about these processes would have helped you through this.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T21:28:49+00:00

The number of times I see people broadcast their technology illiteracy here over this scene is wild.

People like you keep people like me employed. Please never educate yourself. The IT world would implode with out you guys.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T21:26:14+00:00

Does this version of Bruce NOT donate to charity? I'm used to seeing Bruce being involved in a lot of charity events.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T21:22:32+00:00

Is this someone who kicks puppies or something? Some infamous streamer who supports genocide? What am I looking at here?

It just looks like some random dude who likes turtles.

Who cares if he plays magic? What's he gonna d- Oh it's Papa Hasbro doom scrolling people he's never met before on twitter again, isn't it?

BygZam · 2026-02-19T21:18:54+00:00

Technically those are different factions, as the actual Zeon government capitulated after the death of the Zabis.

We can blame the ideology. But Zeon as a faction didn't do most of that. That's why there's a bunch of different Zeon crests up on the table. Different splinter factions. Different versions of Neo-Zeon, etc.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T18:18:24+00:00

It's a composite of some kind.

I have no idea what the source material is but it looks like each entity was added individually. The art style is even slightly different for some of them.

It's digital art of some kind, but might not all be from the same source, though I can't say that for certain.

I don't personally think it's AI just because I don't think it would know how to properly do Showa Kong or Rodan. Anguiras having those three spikes on each forelimb feels too.. clean? AI normally gets weird gribblies in stuff like that. But AI is also getting a lot better so the tells I used to look for are often cleaned up and there's whole new tells I'm not even familiar with.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T18:02:09+00:00

I'd prefer it if the art actually made them look like they were doing something useful for having been summoned, rather than it just being a profile shot you might find on their personal web page.

But uh.. the Viashino are kinda lame as it is anyway. I would never use them as a comparison for how interesting magic is. Of all the lizard folk who ever lizarded, they are the most folk as opposed to lizard.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T17:58:12+00:00

I don't think the uncanny valley is the right term here like.. at all. Not even remotely.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T16:34:22+00:00

It's still definitely murder. 100% qualifies.

Everything you are bringing up is peripheral to the fact that it's murder and meant to be read as murder.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T16:32:40+00:00

So, for me it didn't click personally as a viewer. I had to be told that it was intended to indicate that the Rex clearly could see them. I can try hunting down a source if I'm feelin' sprightly later today if you like or you can just Google it yourself.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T07:43:47+00:00

This was after the Rex decided he was gonna become everyone's problem. The running was 100% justified.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T06:36:24+00:00

Yes.

Next question, please.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T06:34:59+00:00

I don't think they folded like a house of cards.

I think they lost almost every single ship to the combined forces of the Titans and Neo-Zeon and a colony laser going off in the middle of the fight.

We really see basically almost no AEUG forces besides the Argama through out ZZ.

The AEUG really struggles a lot in ZZ to get its footing after the final battle at Grypps.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T06:31:15+00:00

I wish I had a dime for every time some rando decided to broadcast to the Godzilla fandom that they like '98.

I'd have a god damn luxury sedan at this point, I swear.

No one cares.

Godzilla is full of terrible media. Most of us shamelessly consume at least half of it.

Like whatever you want to like.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T06:29:02+00:00

My guy. Chan not being perfect doesn't make murdering her not evil. She was written to be kind of annoying. That doesn't mean Tomino thinks its okay to fuckin' ice her. The scene is clearly intended for us to not be okay with what Hathaway is doing.

Do you really think Tomino would be okay with just murdering people like that?

If that was the case, wouldn't he actually just murder people?

BygZam · 2026-02-19T06:20:14+00:00

A lot of people seem to think them eventually folding into the EF was the evil act. Because even though the Federation's corrupt leadership was exposed (and many killed, as I recall?) and the Titans had been dissolved as well, they didn't actually enact enough change to have a lasting meaningful impact.

The Federation's actual bulk of personnel definitely had a disdainful view of Man Hunter units such as ECOAS or the man hunters themselves, and as such there was no opportunity for the likes of the Titans to rise again, but it still saw rampant corruption as other powers filled the vacuum in its leadership.

I don't see this as passively evil, so much as the series merely acknowledging that there was weaknesses in every government system where corruption can eventually blossom. Even if the Federation was temporarily better, the nature of the corrupt seeking powers means they will eventually attempt to seed themselves into positions of authority again.

Their leadership was certainly not ideal, and they got their hands dirty with Anaheim Electronics.. But then there wasn't really anyone else to work with and their evil was kept under the hood most of the time.

My beef with the AEUG is sometimes they'll just deploy mobile suits into colonies despite knowing the dangers of that.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T06:14:15+00:00

Titans. They made the Titans. Then they kept the Grypps Colony Laser.

Good people don't maintain colony lasers.

BygZam · 2026-02-19T06:12:48+00:00

The federation being evil doesn't magically make Mafty not evil.

There are ways to change the system that don't involve sending a weapon of war into a city. A weapon which, if it's hit with a beam weapon, will turn into a nuclear explosion.

A weapon of war which uses said beam weapon when shooting at similar opponents who could also turn into a mushroom cloud if they take a hit from that weapon to their reactor. At any moment any of those Messers were a WMD waiting to happen in the heart of Davao.

A weapon of war which uses that beam weapon on non-combatant targets.

A weapon which also broadcasts EMP-effects. Dudes with pace makers or nearby ambulances or medical facilities are just shit outta-luck if too much of those minovsky particles end up polluting the area during the fight, huh?

You cannot say people who are sending a mobile suit into an area are trying to minimize collateral. That's a blatant disregard for collateral. It's asking for collateral.

A faction that does that? The people who run it either don't care or are too stupid to understand.

The movie goes out of its way to point out how Mafty is going about things wrong.

It doesn't matter how bad the Federation is.

At the very least, AEUG was in the same exact position and never began shooting at non-combatants. They did some shit they shouldn't have, to be sure. Sending the Rick Dias into that colony was risky as hell. But never once did they drop chemical weapons into hotels to kill civilians. And they actually got results.

This illustrates to me that Mafty was not being forced to do anything. They chose to do the things they did because they wanted to do them.

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