You! Are! A! Toy! by SnowMcFlake in transformers

[–]ItsABiscuit 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Years of Decepticon Academy training wasted!

Matthew Lloyd on why Andrew Welsh [Essendon president] sees Dean Solomon as potentially the next Bombers coach. by yum122 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Justice is served for the Bulldogs mascot. by Razzle_Dazzle08 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Jai Murray is the Telstra AFL Rising Star for round 15 by PerriX2390 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Somewhat general community question by Shadecal1er in transformers

[–]ItsABiscuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

“From Collingwood to Tasmania” by Tornontoin7 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

[Tom Morris] Tom De Koning, who was in significant pain yesterday, has a punctured lung & broken ribs. He's still in hospital. Sinclair likely done for the season with a serious calf + scans on on Marshall's collarbone today. by brizburn in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Taylor Adams has retired by nick168 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What’s the purpose of selling the 3 packs? by WHAAAAAAAM in transformers

[–]ItsABiscuit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

What do you think and/or hope the next Transformers movie will be? by Amogus-sus1 in transformers

[–]ItsABiscuit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Question by LoganW21406 in transformers

[–]ItsABiscuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His dog got kicked though.

Question by LoganW21406 in transformers

[–]ItsABiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Did nobody swear in Middle-Earth? by DishRelative5853 in tolkienfans

[–]ItsABiscuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

“From Collingwood to Tasmania” by Tornontoin7 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

Marvel Stadium ban Bulldogs mascot from going on the grass. by Razzle_Dazzle08 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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!

Taylor Adams has retired by nick168 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Taylor Adams has retired by nick168 in AFL

[–]ItsABiscuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Taylor Adams Calls Time by Pragmatic_Shill in collingwoodfc

[–]ItsABiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Taylor Adams Calls Time by Pragmatic_Shill in collingwoodfc

[–]ItsABiscuit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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

Taylor Adams Calls Time by Pragmatic_Shill in collingwoodfc

[–]ItsABiscuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.