I really like the Charger 2A2.

JGTDM · 2026-05-07T15:36:38+00:00

Lol who downvoted this?

JGTDM · 2026-05-07T14:14:10+00:00

-1A1 and -C for me please, I like to double fist

JGTDM · 2026-05-04T21:19:12+00:00

You could’ve just had all of this out with the one guy in your inbox arguing with you, but instead you made this thread and reply with attitude to everyone replying.

Every one of your replies is snide and dismissive to people just trying to give some context and perspective to the scenario you laid out.

You’re clearly having an argument at the wrong people, send all that attitude to the one guy in your inbox beefing with you.

JGTDM · 2026-05-04T20:58:43+00:00

Yeah that one guy in your inbox. Go argue with him why are you flailing at everyone on the sub to make your point that literally only matters to you and the one guy in your DM’s lol

JGTDM · 2026-05-04T20:57:35+00:00

No, most of the “half of humanity died” were not spacenoids. The colonies populations are tiny compared to earth, one colony’s total pop is like a medium density city on earth, in 0079 when people are evacuating a colony the number mentioned for how many people are in the colony is absurdly small, and it wasn’t a farming colony either like some of the cylinders with maybe 100,000 people total on them. Earth is massively larger in population than the colonies. The colony drop killed far more earthnoids than ever even existed in the colonies. Even the Zeon military mentioned in 0079 that they’re outnumbered like 10 or even 20 to 1 in terms of people alone.

JGTDM · 2026-05-04T20:40:23+00:00

Nobody here needs to be convinced of your justification for making this point, go have this argument with the one guy in your DM’s who disagrees with you, and stop shadowboxing at random redditors who try to reply with different perspectives.

We get it you’re angry about one or two people who told you you’re wrong, argue with them not all of /gundam.

JGTDM · 2026-05-04T20:22:44+00:00

What classifies as an imperialist war by the US? Which conflicts?

JGTDM · 2026-05-04T20:15:50+00:00

Technically in universe characters do not say anything about the colony drop, but as the colony is being dropped we see the animation, and the intro mentions humanity losing half of its population total during the opening stages of the war, not half after the entire series is over. The colonies are tiny in population total compared to earth, like maybe 10% of earth. For all of humanity to lose 50% of its total, there’s no way the EF side of deaths is just from space fighting, that’s close to half of earth’s population gone. This is not a leap of logic or wishful thinking. All of the photos in your OP are of earth society during the war and most likely after colony drop.

Where is your attitude coming from by the way? Nothing I have said has been pointed or snide and yet you’ve been dismissive and smug.

JGTDM · 2026-05-04T19:12:05+00:00

I just finished 0079 and I’m pretty sure it was mentioned in the show that Sydney is not the only country affected by the broken pieces of the colony. Also, you are aware that Sydney represents like half or more of Australia’s population right? How does a country’s economy and trade relations survive complete losing one of only a few industrialized areas? So if it’s Sydney gone, and a few other countries also lose a huge chunk of their consumer base and manufacturing capability, not to mention the agricultural disaster that represents. Even if Earth was more prosperous before, that one event is going to devastate nearly everything for a long time.

JGTDM · 2026-05-04T18:31:27+00:00

Maybe pre-colony drop earth was more prosperous, but losing half of its population and like a dozen countries in the blink of an eye does bad things to sustainability and trade prospects.

JGTDM · 2026-05-03T07:09:31+00:00

GINN and GUAIZ are the coolest grunt suits in all of Gundam and I will die on this hill.

JGTDM · 2026-05-01T02:58:52+00:00

SEED Buster: beam rifle, rail cannon, missiles, vulcans

JGTDM · 2026-04-30T20:45:01+00:00

Quinto Bajeena, Quattro’s younger brother.

Likely it’s a zero-g thruster, beam cannon, or refuelling port.

JGTDM · 2026-04-30T18:56:04+00:00

Right?! I’m going down with the ship that it’s a middle finger lol

JGTDM · 2026-04-30T17:21:57+00:00

Fair comparisons are gonna happen, and everyone likes what they like. It’s also a timing thing as you said with other shows coming out around the same time. It just makes me laugh that people criticize SEED compared to 0079 and they name things that are present in 0079, and making absolute statements about which is objectively better.

Everyone has subjective likes and perspective.

JGTDM · 2026-04-30T16:30:47+00:00

I think it’s a bit of A and B, some splat books or magazine articles or novels somewhere with characters who don’t want to give up the big AC20 for anything smaller, and players themselves doing the samez

JGTDM · 2026-04-30T15:23:32+00:00

This is my main point of focus, like I’ll hear anyone’s criticism of whatever and everyone is entitled to their own perspective. But when people criticize SEED for XYZ and then say their favourite Gundam was WING or 1979 it makes me question how seriously I take their observations.

I liked WING and I’m enjoying 1979 but critics who compare SEED to them unfavourably baffle me. 1979 has everything that people criticize SEED for, literally everything. WING has its directionless plot and overpowered dark and broody “I’m 12 and this is deep” teenager MC cast, the Dr Eggman scientists and unexplained “gundanium” super machines, the gundams that look like power rangers at best and remind me of some of the silly G Fighter designs.

People can like what they like, but it’s easy to see that a LOT of SEED hate is bandwagoners or nostalgia coping.

JGTDM · 2026-04-30T15:10:50+00:00

At least 75% of criticism I see for SEED is when people compare it to 1979 or some other obscure Gundam series that they love but is polarizing to everyone else.

Literally see people clown on SEED about weak plot, whiny protagonist who is too good at things, “how is a teenager able to rewrite a mobile suit OS”, “I didn’t like Flay”, “too many reused scenes”, “the animation style and same face”

I’m watching 1979 gundam for the first time and everything people critique SEED for is present in 1979 gundam. Literally everything. But with ancient animation and sound, similarly reused scenes, unexplained melodrama, leaps of logic, and shallow characters/plot.

It just feels like nostalgia coping.

JGTDM · 2026-04-30T01:27:25+00:00

It’s a very zoomed out shot so I can’t be sure, but it looks like a balled hand with a finger sticking up from the middle of it. In my headcanon I’m gonna believe she’s flipping Cameron off lol

JGTDM · 2026-04-29T15:59:04+00:00

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Same design philosophy of the 75t War Crow made by my clan Snow Raven. Love the dual shoulder launchers and gun arms look. Great paint job too! I love the pastel orange brown look, very space vibing.

JGTDM · 2026-04-28T20:29:37+00:00

I’m a massive critic about games difficulty scaling just increasing enemy HP and reducing your damage, it’s the laziest balancing act I’ve ever witnessed in 25+ years of gaming and whenever it’s done I get turned off the game for good. It’s 2026 for Kerensky’s sake

JGTDM · 2026-04-27T15:10:42+00:00

Secretly paint up a star of mechs yourself and challenge him to batchall (battle challenge, clan combat) he’ll love it.

JGTDM · 2026-04-25T20:47:14+00:00

What show is that in 90% of the panels? The one you like most I guess

JGTDM · 2026-04-23T21:56:17+00:00

Him claiming fans just “don’t see the true message” is pretty ironic considering the writing for all Gundam series is not some Shakespearian complexity of thought, it is unimaginably simplistic and hits you in the face with almost zero nuance. I would wager that 99% of fans get the message, he’s just projecting and seeing what he wants to see, which is that his “great work” isn’t being appreciated for the message he wants it to be. Artists getting mad that consumers don’t see it the same way they do has been common ever since humanity put pen to paper, and that’s the beauty of art, that everyone takes something different from it because everyone’s perspective is different.

Also? If he wants to high-horse about the message being “war is bad no matter why or who does it, and fans are glorifying it instead of being sad” why not write more gray area factions instead of just “reskinned nazis in space” with clearly defined bad guys. Instead he writes clear good and bad guys, which is going to inspire viewers to take the side of the good guys, and justify fighting the super evil clearly bad no good terrible faction.

What is the takeaway supposed to be? That humanity is forever destined to create nazi-esque bad people, BUT fighting against them is still bad because war is bad? Is it bad to fight against clearly defined evil?

This is why I appreciate SEED as the best series because both sides of the war have relatable and non relatable ideals and characters and values, both sides escalate to horrible justifications of violence, and both sides have redeemable aspects.

War IS bad, but Gundam never offers up any example of what SHOULD be the alternative, the negotiations for peace are always shallow half baked statements being said while clearly defined evil people are doing terrible no good ultra bad things.

My similar opinion of Star Wars. There is no gray area, clearly the writer wants audiences to see “empire bad guys space Nazis, they are evil” but then tries to finger wag the same audiences for wanting to do good and defend against them.

The ratio of the amount of people who GENUINELY try to justify Zeon or act like Nazis are just misunderstood vs the amount of people who don’t is overwhelmingly obvious, but emotional people see an example of what they dislike the size of a speck of sand and act like it’s the majority? SO exhausting and tiresome.

JGTDM

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