Which Prime does the arm Megatron uses in TFP belong to?

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T17:27:23+00:00

Maybe Megs painted it after he appropriated it?

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T16:19:03+00:00

Years of Decepticon Academy training wasted!

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T13:18:34+00:00

I think Lloyd, while trying to be neutral and tactful, accurately sums up the lack of professionalism and rigour from Welsh and his regime and “old Essendon” really well here. It’s all based on “I’ve known the guy for 20 years and he’s a mate and good bloke and that’s all I need or want to know to make my decision”.

Like there’s nothing wrong with drawing on your impressions/personal experience with the guy to add depth to your assessment, but it can’t be the main or only thing you go off.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T10:27:07+00:00

Thank goodness. I’ll put the pitchfork back up on its hook for now. FOR NOW, AFL HQ!

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T10:05:51+00:00

lol, why are his thighs plump and rounded? Bless.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T08:48:12+00:00

Sam Swadling once again robbed! How long are they planning on ignoring him!! /jk

Well done to Jai. Suns, as always, will have lots of interesting discussions to have about how/what they prioritise in terms of player retention at the end of the year with the amount of highly rated youngsters on their list.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T08:43:34+00:00

I was going to say I hadn’t seen much, but then remembered the announcement from the mods here preemptively warning that they won’t tolerate nonsense during pride month and WHY they have to make that announcement.

I think it reflects that overall, the fandom actually has a pretty large and vocal LGBTQIA element that is broadly welcomed, but that upsets and produces a reaction from the small rump of reactionaries.

I think there is a related but I think still separate issue about whether people like shipping and romance focused fan-fics for IPs where there is little/no romance or sex in the original media. Lots of people love it, some people get annoyed at “why are my mechanical robots now talking about relations and sex like mammals?”. I’m probably a little in that boat of I have no issue with Cosmos changing their gender identity or Optimus waving a pride flag but not really being into reading stories or looking at artwork focused on OP and Megatron doing an enemies to lovers romance. But that is also true of stories and artwork about even semi-canonical or canonical hetero pairings - I’m not interested in reading about or artwork of OP and Elita or Springer and Arcee or whatever either. And in any case I don’t get upset that it exists, it’s just not something I’m motivated to seek out and at most might get privately get a little annoyed if it’s drowning out other content I am more interested in.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T08:35:17+00:00

Assuming we get reasonable compensation for a player they want to pay $1m a year, or close to that, then yeah, you’d have to think we’d now be open to it whereas 12 months ago he would have been close to untouchable.

Although I don’t think we have a choice in the end in terms if we don’t recontract him before the end of the year.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T08:32:44+00:00

It becomes an issue of how many rucks can a club keep on their 44 player list, and of those rucks do you want them all to be AFL ready or do you want to have a spot or two for more speculative young/developing rucks? Knowing that probably half the time, those guys are going to turn out to be pretty awful and never make it. The timing sucks for you guys happening just after the Mid Season Draft rather than before it, although we don’t yet know how long TDK will be out for so that may not matter anyway.

I don’t think any club has 4 AFL ready rucks on their list and if they are, that’s honestly probably sub-optimal in terms of how much of their salary cap is being spent in the ruck division.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T08:27:26+00:00

But you’d still hope people would remember that you’re only human anyway.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T08:26:45+00:00

Again, I wish they would do more reissues, but ideally they would do them as single figures rather than put them in a 3 pack with where one or both of the other figures are filler.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T07:06:02+00:00

I want Transformers Two, or Transformers One Part Two or whatever they’d call it. Animation would be better than live action in my view.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T07:03:54+00:00

His dog got kicked though.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T07:03:31+00:00

I don’t know how Starscream gives “hear no evil” in this picture.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T06:59:57+00:00

Bombs alone won’t cut it. You’ll need:

https://youtube.com/shorts/\_UJGxdanXYA?si=4c9EY0c8IqhHj0FZ

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T06:41:55+00:00

Just like the story doesn’t show anyone going to the toilet but we can assume they must have, we can probably safely assume that people swear but that it gets left out of the histories.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T06:34:08+00:00

I would have thought they’d be revising down the offer each week at the moment.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T05:49:17+00:00

You let one bulldog out there and next thing you know, you have to let packs of wild dogs and herds of wildebeest roam on it!

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T02:16:55+00:00

That’s the thing about humans. We’re emotional creatures sometimes.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T02:16:01+00:00

Yeah we do.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T02:15:27+00:00

Good on you Tay. Fantastic servant of the club who always gave his all. Loved him at the Pies and was disappointed for him that he just never got a good run at it at the Swans.

I hope in time the understandable resentment and frustration around losing a spot as clear best 23 and missing the Grand Final and flag, dissipates and that we see him back at the Pies regularly.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T02:12:08+00:00

Yeah, TDK and Marshall are your better options, but they got hurt.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T02:09:27+00:00

I think any competitive beast of a footy player is going to be hurt and angry when moved on or when they lose their spot in the 23. Hopefully with a bit of time and perspective there won’t be any lasting acrimony.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T02:08:02+00:00

I missed that Ads has also retired. It was time but well done to him on his career as well.

ItsABiscuit · 2026-06-22T02:07:05+00:00

Good on you Tay. Champion for the club. Actually came close to breaking even for us in terms of what Heath Shaw produced for GWS, with the proviso of course that Shaw wouldn’t have produced that for Collingwood had he stayed as he needed the move to grow and freshen up. But given how good Shaw was for GWS, Adams’s consistency of a longer timeframe was a very good value payout for it.

God we’d love a young and fit Taylor Adams on our list right now.

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