#panda pandering

[the-five-deadly-venoms]

isn't this raya and the last dragon?

[gamer2002]

Can they at least try not to act like a bunch of lapdogs?

[tungledotedu]

for your blocklist:

omgthatdress is still doubling down on accusing gazans of being scammers because... there are people who didn't vote harris.

[image ID: a tumblr post by omgthatdress, dated 14 hours ago. it reads:

'huge personal fuck you to everyone who didn't vote or voted for Jill Stein

Vladimir Putin thanks you for your service to the global cause of fascism.

At least now we'll know for sure that the ask bots claiming to be Gazan are indeed scams because Gaza isn't going to exist any more'. end ID.]

more racists to block:

(link)

[image ID: a tumblr reblog by takashi0 from someoneintheshadow456, dated 11 hours ago. it says: 'Supporting Israel might be the one legitimately good idea Harris had since that would PREVENT genocide but sure whatever you say lmfao'. end ID.]

this guy: you know what would stop this genocide? supporting a terrorist regime that has turned entire towns into rubble and ignored the icj's orders to prevent genocide. i am very smart.

(link)

[image ID: a tumblr post by stupid-fat-panda, dated 12 hours ago. there is a screenshot of another user's tags, which say: '#also muslim voters were NEVER going to support harris because she's half Indian #i don't think it was because she was a woman because that didn't stop ilhan omar #but harris being half tambram definitely would have turned off the muslim voter-base #which is funny because harris openly antagonized hindus to get the muslim vote #…which they would never give her'.

stupid-fat-panda's tags read: '#weirdly enough trump is actually more pro israel than kamala was #but i also know a lot of muslims HATE lgbt people and the pandering towards Igbt extremists is probably what lost their vote as well'.

end ID.]

[silvermoon424]

I really wish the Sailor Moon manga would get an adaptation that didn't panda to the 90s anime... I've heard people who've said that Crystal gets better from season 3 onwards, but season 3 is when they started changing the art style and other things to resemble things of the 90s anime... It's like they couldn't like the season without it catering to 90s fans and it's a shame because Takeuchi has a really beautiful art style in the manga and I wish it was able to be adapted completely faithfully (the first two seasons' problem was that the animation was kinda stiff, but otherwise, everything was beautiful)...

It is really annoying how much the reboot panders to the 90s anime, ngl. I don't mind a few shoutouts, but did they really have to completely recreate the old 90s transformation sequences instead of giving us new ones? I'll forever be salty that the Senshi don't have Precure-style transformations.

[iris-polaris]

🟪 ANIMAL OF THE DAY: red panda (Ailurus fulgens). native to China. despite its name, NOT related to your typical panda, though it has a false "thumb" like panders to eat those tasty-ass bamboo Big Macs. it is probably kin to raccoons weasels etc but Experts are debatin'.

happy int'l red panda day for those who Celebrate. "Ailurus fulgens" basically means Bright Cat by the way. are there any honest mammals out there WORTHY of a whole day dedicated just to Them? sources say no

[crusherthedoctor]

👛 your favorite rare pair?

♟️a character you feel is overrated?

🐇 longest fandom you’ve been in?

👛 - your favourite rare pair?

EggmanXMyPen

Because who else can I trust with him. :'<

♟️ - a character you feel is overrated?

The usual faces:

The IDW cast, cause they get hyped up as the best characters of all time despite them being idiots, cunts, or idiot cunts. Some of them could have been promising had things turned out differently, but others were doomed to be shite from the start.

Scourge, cause he's the lamest take imaginable on an already boring premise. (What if Sonic... WaS eViL???)

Nine and Thorn, cause these two are held up as defining examples of Tails and Amy, which makes me a sad-but-not-surprised panda.

Mephiles, cause outside of Dan Green's voice, he's another poorly written villain of many who people treat as though he's somehow better than the rest when he's not.

The End, cause it's as nothing and artificially hyped as the rest of the plot it's part of.

The Freedom Fighters, cause folk believe so vehemently that they deserve special privileges, and are somehow more integral to Sonic than the actual game-born characters. They go on about their perceived legacy, when you could say the same thing about AoStH characters, Underground characters, etc, yet they never get this level of deification.

Silver, cause despite disapproving of his off portrayals in the comics, I've never cared for his in-character portrayal either. And his design still doesn't work in execution.

Sage, cause she's as compelling as watching grass grow, and bastardizes Eggman's character all the while. (I don't care what their intention was, they really should have predicted how the fandom would react to it, and they've continued pandering to the Eggdad crowd on occasion even after the fact. Until Eggdad gets more thoroughly debunked in-universe, a lot of the rationalizations surrounding it currently sound like copium to me... like a lot of handwaves for Sonic "Best Story Since Black Knight" Frontiers in general.)

More controversially, while I do respect Shadow, even if he's never been one of my top favourites, I kind of resent how the attention given to him always comes at other characters' expense. I also don't appreciate when, in the process of fans hyping up and down how deep/complex/etc he is, they usually dismiss Sonic, Eggman, and most of the others while doing so, because they're perceived to be simpler, ergo they consider them lesser. Being the Eggfan that I am, you can imagine why I'd take offense to this.

🐇 - longest fandom you've been in?

I guess Crash and Spyro and Gex would qualify, since I grew up with a PS1. As Sonic-pilled as I would eventually become, my knowledge and firsthand experience with the latter was non-existent until 2003.

[minijenn]

Jen Tortures Herself With Every Dreamworks Animated Movie Ever: The Boss Baby

(I could not for the life of me find actual promo art for this stupid fucking movie anyway). Boss Baby is bad. Wow, Jen, what a shocking revelation! Who could have guessed? Yeah, I could have. Cause this movie sucks. Let's get into all the many, many reasons why.

Seven year old Tim lives a perfect life with his loving parents, until the arrival of the Boss Baby, who acts like a normal baby around adults, but in reality, he's actually a corperate suit who works for Baby Corp, which is where all babies come from. A rivalry ensues between Tim and the baby, until they're forced to work together to foil a plot to stop puppies from overtaking parents' love for babies. Or something like that, idk this movie's plot is fucking weird.

So yeah, weird ass story that just... has really fucky pacing? Like this movie drags on man, it drags on SO long to the point that I felt like it was never going to end. We get to the climax and there's still like 20 minutes left in the movie??? Bro, stop padding this damn thing out. Nobody wants to sit through this fuckass movie for that long???

Our characters are all pretty lame. Tim is a typical annoying kid with an overactive imagination, there really isn't a lot to him. Boss Baby is as about as annoying as you'd expect a baby playing off white collar worker stereotypes to be. The parents are barely characters, same for Boss Baby's little crew. The villain is also the same old upstaged petty jealous bitch who wants their glory days back. Dreamworks, you just fucking did this trope. In fact their past three movies have had this trope (Dave, Kai, and Chef).

The humor in this is expectedly lame and childish. Because there's such a large focus on babies, you can expect lots of poop and vomit jokes, which I am absolutely not a fan of. When the humor isn't that its just "oh look at this cute baby saying he wants a latte and talking about stocks! Isn't that FUNNY? LAUGH, PLEASE WE"RE BEGGING YOU!" And it's trying so hard, both to be funny and to wring out genuine emotions and I think it almost manages to do the latter near the end, but even then it all comes across as nothing more than pandering and tryhard. Like I already don't like these characters, movie. What makes you think I'm compelled to feel anything about them?

The animation is... oy. A mess? The character designs are just bad, man. They look like something out of a shitty mobile game ad, with those massive uncanny valley eyes that take up half their face. The movie is agressively colorful, and while I praised something like that in Trolls, I can't say the same here. It's just too... hyperactive for me? Like there's lots of imagination sequences sprinkled throughout the film and you can tell they're trying to be stylized ala Kung Fu Panda, but there's always just too much going on on screen and it kind of hurts to look at? Like fuck, movie, calm down. You are way too overstimulating right now and my eyes are starting to goddamn ache just looking at you.

The one thing I didn't hate about this movie I suppose was the music. They could have easily littered the soundtrack with shitty pop songs, but they surprisingly held back. The score is also fairly nice to listen to, should have been in a better movie than goddamn Boss Baby, that's for sure.

There's also the fact that this movie's lore is just... a confusing mess? I get that this is for kids, but like? It takes itself seriously, so why am I still so confused about where babies come from in this universe. Are they concieved through Sex? Or are they made in a factory or something? Like what the fuck am I supposed to think, movie? Make it make fucking sense, please.

So yeah, I didn't like this one. I think Dreamworks was trying to make a kids' movie that could also appeal to adults here, but in the end, they made a movie that appeals to absolutely no one. Sure, I suppose it has its fans, who are likely just dumb kids who are too stupid to know they're being pandered to, but I am certainly not one of them. Fuckass movie, fucking hated it. Get it out of my face. Now.

Overall Rating: 2/10

Verdict: (takes out a gun and cocks it at Boss Baby) You're fired, kiddo

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[robthewriter]

SPANW – The Society for the Protection of Abused and Neglected Words

Where do you stand on the issue of abused and neglected words? Do you stand up to be counted? If so, you are in the wrong place, that’s the Society for Abused and Neglected Numbers. SPANW needs you, all of you, words need you and they need you now!

Not just those, superstar neglected words like “Scurryfunge,” (the last-minute scramble to get everything tidy before guests arrive). Not that perennial favourite abused word “Iconic,” (like an Icon, something flawless and worthy of veneration). “Iconic” is so overworked and exhausted, it has had to check into rehab. No, we all know about those words, they are the “Giant Pandas,” of the world of words. Here at SPANW we are asking you to spare a thought for those other hard-pressed words, the ones that don’t get all the attention.

Case Studies…

Number One: “Decimate’s,” story.

Poor “Decimate,” Decimate began life in ancient Rome and had a very specific and terrifying meaning. If a Roman legion should fall short of its expected standards, it might be punished by the drawing of lots and the execution of every tenth man as an example to the others.

Now, however, Journalists will invite you to look at a scene of devastation and inform you that a flood, or a landslide has “decimated” some town or village. What a very remarkable and selective landslide, what precision there is in nature, to kill every tenth person.

Decimate, if the word could speak for itself, might reasonably point out, that despite the clue being in the name, DECimate, this ancient and mighty word, has just become a synonym for annihilate, devastate, or obliterate.

Number Two: “Swingeing” and “Draconian,” their stories.

Already neglected words outside of the UK, “Swingeing” has now fallen upon hard times, as has “Draconian.” From the sixties, through to the mid-eighties, every British journalist, TV or print, couldn’t resist the allure of the word “swingeing”. Swingeing, together with his close friend “Draconian,” was on everyone’s lips.

“The Government,” they would inform us, “Has imposed draconian measures to ensure that their swingeing cuts are pushed through.” We were all lacerated by swingeing cuts and crushed under the weight of draconian measures back then and we loved it.

Even though we had austerity and covid lockdowns more recently, not much swingeing went on and precious little was draconian. Both words were perfect for the situation but sadly remained in obscurity.

Number Three: “Literally’s,” story.

Literally… Exactly as described, without exaggeration or distortion… That’s what this fine upstanding word used to mean. It was to be trusted, a word to be taken at its word, you might say. Now, after years of abuse, it has instead become a panderer to hyperbole and an enabler to overstatement.

“If I’m not home by eight, my dad will literally kill me.” If that’s the case, if you indeed have a homicidal father, should you be going home at all?

“I was literally blown away.” Odd, because I did not see a tornado warning on the local news?

“I am literally on top of the world right now.” Really? You are speaking to us live from the North Pole?

So, next time you are “literally decimated by the news!” Consider, if instead you might want to apply a swingeing cut to your word abuse. Otherwise, we shall campaign for draconian measures to curb your excesses.

Don’t take words for granted, or abuse and neglect will see the end of them and we shall all be forced to attempt to communicate in emojis, despite pictograms being abandoned in favour of actual words, thousands of years ago.

So, please join the campaign and help us in our vital work.

Here at SPANW, we take in as many words as we can. We tuck them up in blankets, on a bed of clean straw, before a roaring fire and feed them warm milk with an eyedropper for as long as it takes to nurse them back to health. Weary and marginalised, exhausted through overwork, corrupted and debased, or neglected and forgotten, we care for them all. Once they are back on their feet, we temporarily house them in old, worn, second hand dictionaries until they are strong enough to be released back into the wild.

We want to put a SPANW in the works. We demand equal rights for all words and we will lobby governments worldwide until we get it. Will you stand with us?

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SPANW is a not-for-profit charitable organisation, which does not exist and is a figment of my imagination. Please do not send donations, eye droppers, or worn dictionaries to SPANW (or me). Thank you.

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For those who have taken me “literally,” please don’t fill the comments box with admonishments regarding how words have always changed their usage over time and always will and how a word that has changed in that way is normalised and validated through common usage. Thank you in advance, I am aware of that and I was just having fun.

[saltfield]

Bonded Hearts

Where, in memoriam,

The dirge of banisters reply,

Until the separation's half,

Does imitation soliloquize.

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Pander me your Panda schemes,

A fortune's blessing gone amiss,

But wait, imagine possibles,

In extinction's glaring hieroglyph.

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Under vow to solitude,

I seek the candle's waxing light,

Perforated memorandum,

Tearing me from spines if spite.

.

While sintering my fracturings,

We meet by dust as chaff in air,

You become my umbra cast,

As I, your shadow, chandelier.

[ewicomkicks]

So, the Panders huh?

Nobody except Dragon and I seem to care about Pander/the Panders so heres a..... study?? of their character.

We already know Panders deal and how much it stands out but I want to talk about what we know about the character of Pander. It has a traditional Japanese dance style and style in general, different from actual pandas which are from China. This leads me to believe that the Panders are based in Japan. So we can say that Panders aren't related to actual pandas, at least fully.

And that's all we get from BaG2, how mysterious. But in DS2001 we get some intriguing information. Dragon was going to use the Groovetron to save the Panders from extinction. That means that there is more than the 2 Panders that we see [Pander vs Pander] and there has been more. That's pretty unfortunate but do you know what that implies? Panders are either being hunted, have natural predators, or both.

Pander is not some weird guy in body paint, it's only one of its whole endangered species. It's some weird human/panda hybrid and don't think that that's too weird, capoeira are just as weird and interesting. And yes, I will be making a post about them at some point.

I've been thinking about this for over a year but I never talked about it because nobody cares about Pander. But I really hope that this can be a full discussion. Let's talk about the weirdness of Pander

In conclusion : Pander is super interesting and we should all thank Dragon for not letting the Heat and Hiro fanboys get their fan service.

[sonicphobia0601]

Oh goddamn... Where the fuck did I see that kind of advertising?

Lemme think...? Video game character made ugly? Check.

Famous actors that felt thrown in? Check.

Trying to pander to kids instead of fans? Check.

Feels like a cash grab? Check.

Hmm...

I'm drawing a blank. (Sarcastic) It's not like Disney used Ugly Sonic as a gag in a movie and gave him a Boston accent (heavy sarcasm).

And they say they wouldn't do that? I hate saying this but Warner Brothers are starting to sound hypocritical. In fact I think they're using Minecraft as a bullshit excuse to make a quick buck and cash in on kids. We all saw how awesome Detective Pikachu was (and how fans of Sonic the Hedgehog have pushed Paramount to fix their shit with the Ugly Sonic Incident by having someone who actually KNOWS the source material, aka Jeff Fowler, aka the guy who made those cutscenes from Shadow the Hedgehog onward).

🤦🏻

To Minecraft fans out there: I got advice. It worked with the Sonic movie really well back in 2019 (which was why it was delayed). And you have my complete permission to use this sage advice.

Rip Warner Brothers a new asshole. Hell, flood that first trailer with your raw opinions (go far enough to insult the sheep. And add that Steve is best animated and voiced by Jack Black. I mean, we know Jack Black can voice protagonists and antagonists well, if The Mario Movie and the Kung Fu Panda series are anything to go by). Fuck, rip the studio a new asshole if needed. Hell, bring a few creepers along and TNT (kidding. Only use creepers for shaping worlds, and leave the TNT at home).

I may not be an active Minecraft fan (have played it, enjoyed it but can't find time to craft much due to being a busy bean) but you guys definitely deserve better. If you must bust out the big guns, say something to Notch or other prevalent Minecraft YouTubers.

Chat they made Minecraft into a silly goofy cringe movie even through Minecraft is actually about life and earth and the universe and tearing meaning out of the ground and molding it with your hands into something that you can be proud of. They made the pink sheep look ugly and funny for a cheap laugh when it should’ve been a beautiful moment where you, age eleven, come across this rarity, this beautiful anomaly and you hold its face in your hands and stare into its chocolate brown eyes and you realize what the whole world is about. Chat they made it into a joke

[toonvasion]

Flat Panda Nurse

Idea from paperboio

[robsmithjr]

ROBbing a Few Minutes: Panda and other panderings from live chat....

This meandering scribbling of about an hour starts with bursting open a Kinder egg. A panda to assemble and then scribble. The chat area took off and everything from drinking cows to Santa Claus came up. All drawn off the top of my head. Video from November 3rd live drawing can be seen here: The chat follows along. Sped-up version to come. . . . . . . . . #DrawLive #Draws #art #Pandas…

[barneyandthepoetrymuse]

 I caught a panda and lost it with a giraffe…



Can’t you see you’re being ring fenced…and pigeon holed……..

Is there any solid evidence that you’re body has a soul…..?

Society has always been a concept…of population control…..

The more you knew about it…the less you’d want to know…..

It’s a flattery based municipality and your standard’s Eddie Izard…..

London’s charged radically thanks again to Sadiq Khan…..

….Find a metaphor and make a statement on behalf ….. of the…

…..“I caught a panda and got lost with a giraffe” ….. society…

It’s low level policing now that Panda’s are in charge……

Minority group representatives in their Panda cars…..

We’re only in February and it’s already an inclusion March…..

The new teacher’s legs are hairy and his skirts right up his arse….

I caught a Panda red handed, sore…and half baked…

After kicking the shit out of the cubicle door…I was told not to discriminate…

He’d been palming children off and asking for the same….!!!!

But Panda’s mixed race and “too young to be named”…..

I caught him in the ladies toilets, he didn’t need a Pee…

He might be a fucking Panda but he’s not a fucking lady…

He was posing as Amanda from the child safety team!!!

…..and don’t forget blokes also piss on toilet seats…fuck me…🤷🏻‍♂️

Female only facilities… Panda’s in there shaking his wrists…..

But this is “THE” Panda and he’s got transformation gifts….

Pandas with high standards, won’t take a gander at lady’s tits!!!!!!

What’s that in his panda paws…probably his bits…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

I could be wrong but how easily are you convinced…?

I think some rules in life are better off staying fixed…

Wouldn’t it be nice if everything could be so easily mixed…..

We’ve heard all the theories but take a look at the statistics…..

Who’s visiting the libraries or is it just the all consuming net…..?

Cancel all of Christmas and change Easter on the eggs…?

Panda’s Santa’s help, a gender surprise between his legs….

Is any of this kind of thinking…..starting to sink in…yet…?

Logical not ideological, some ideas will put you in hospital…..

You’re placing yourself in the hands of the impossible…..

How much of your health care is still inaccessible…?

Shouldn’t WE be asking questions of THE people responsible…..?

Panda’s lost a horse race and is trying to win by going public….

He fell in the steeplechase but wtf should Panda’s expect…..?

He’s part of the…. “I don’t agree and you’re a phobic” …..subject…..!!

Demanding affirmation but not showing the same respect……??

Panda’s neither white nor black, so allowed to make racial attacks….

He’s a modern mixed race woman with increased muscle mass….

Racially misgendered with an all exemption pass……

To say and do the opposite of what we’re all being asked….!

All inclusivity healthcare appointments with intervention scars…..

Where’s the children’s welfare act’s deployment of bodyguards…..???

Take our Nationally Healthy, politically corrected and motivated grants…..

The speaker of the house is Pandering too all the diversity demands…..

I caught a Panda being centre left of a Zebra…..

He fell off a boat and now he’s caught a bloody fever…

Is it me, or is the shit our NHS in only getting deeper…?

We’re just the gates and the Panda is the keeper…..!

Panda’s an inclusion manager and won’t hire stereotypes…..

Panda is the standard, and he can do what he likes…..

Panda has no manners but advocates equal rights….

Panda is a minister and gives government advise…

Panda’s head and shoulders above the Political class…..

Rising up and getting older he’s been promoted to a giraffe….

He’s a public service wanker who likes wearing lady’s bras…..

They’re cheaters and Hyenas taking the piss in seedy bars……………..

[13thpythagoras]

😂😭

hearing an Englishman try to say "panda bear"

all he can muster is "pander beah"

[call-boy]

we hit every achivement cap besides full mythic completion by like week 2 and every one hopped on pandaria remix which got old fast... will lit collect currency on there to purchase gear sets for trasmog every now and then but got old so quick.... i hated the expansion they decided to turn into increased xp/OP damage/skill runes from other classes/fun server... the introduction of the humanoid panda race and long ass cinematics for every quest/raid/scenario that weren't skippable pissed me off... it was blatant kung fu panda pandering bc it was released at the same time smh i hate pandaland lovers smh was lit one of the 2 expansions i stopped playing mid way through bc it was just lame... Pandaria expansion and Warlords of Draenor expansion just gave boring ass vibes