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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Blend S was pretty good while it lasted. Admittedly, once they introduced the trap I started to get the distinct feeling I'd seen this all before... and then it hit me. This is Kaichou wa Maid-sama as a pure comedy. Still, that didn't detract much from enjoying the series. Mairimashita! Iruma-kun is plodding towards its end with all the vigor of an old-school zombie. I'm not sure that's really a problem in the story so much as a lack of compression in the introductions. They've only just properly introduced most of the main cast, and it has like two episodes left in its broadcast run unless it gets a second season. It's like they're going to try to cram the first real story arc into the very end of the series in a big hurry. Isekai Quartet 2 is still doing its in-joke thing and at least having fun with it even if a few of the gags aren't so fresh.
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    Granted, the new design teased a while back has an undeniable General Galaxy aesthetic and a vaguely VF-14-esque profile... but it has the wrong proportions to be either the Spiritia Dreaming VF-14 or the Macross M3 VF-14. Spoiler: the new threat teased in promotional materials is audiences realizing that Delta's characters are all painfully underdeveloped and boring. (Either that or the NUNS finally came calling to arrest Lady M and Ernest Johnson for their many crimes.)
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    Being a dedicated special forces VF, it's not altogether surprising that it didn't have many appearances. Apart from the few units sitting out on the tarmac at New Edwards in Macross Plus, Diamond Force's three units in Macross 7, and the handful of VF-17s being sold on the black market to whale poachers in Macross Dynamite 7, the only significant appearances I recall the VF-17 having were as playable mecha in Macross Digital Mission VF-X and Macross VF-X2, being a background character's racing mecha in Macross the Ride, and being used by the Macross Galaxy Corporate Army in the novelization of Macross Frontier. General Galaxy only built 718 of them, so that they're THAT widespread is actually kind of surprising.
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    So, since this season has turned into such a massive disappointment, I went trawling through Crunchyroll's back catalog and found some older shows I haven't seen yet. Started a series called Blend-S, which has so far proved to be an entertainingly warped take on the "eccentric part-time cafe" slice of life sort of story. It's especially entertaining watching the Italian weeb manager and reverse-weeb main character flounder in the gap between each other's expectations and reality.
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    Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shōmei Shite Mita continues to be a pretty mediocre experience too. It was funny and clever for two or three episodes, but the humor is very much a one-trick pony so it got stale with alarming speed. At least I have a second season of Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai - Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunōsen to look forward to in a few days time. Apart from that and a new season of Shokugeki no Soma, next season looks like pretty slim pickings too.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    Well, I'm done with OreGairu... and it was a decidedly mediocre and unsatisfying experience. It seems like the only way they could think of for Hachiman to not seem like a complete dick was to make everyone else as broken and miserable as him, but better at hiding it.
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    Nah, a level 3 chemsuit just isn't flash enough... This is absolutely what the discerning gentleman will be wearing this plague season.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    I've almost finished Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabukome wa Machigatteiru... I found it pretty dull, for the most part. It's a lot like Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! but the social ineptitude-induced cringe response is treated as a source of cheap drama instead of a source of cheap laughs. It seems to be heading towards an unearned happy ending where Hachiman's status as a Jerk with a Heart of Also Jerk is somehow recast as Jerk with a Heart of Gold without him actually changing at all. That said, it comes nowhere close to the level of misery porn now embodied by Attack on Titan. I got caught up on that manga the other day while I was waiting for an automated task to finish at work and damn if it isn't bleak as hell. The protagonist has achieved a level of nationalist, xenophobic, genocidal prick that would make even Hitler tell him to tone it the hell down and his rival isn't any better... they literally get into a big argument over which one of them has a more appropriate target for genocide. Even the reveal of the origin of the Titans ended up as an unexplained copout.
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    A good long road trip in mixed driving conditions... like a freeway through a rural area.
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    Eh... credit where credit is due, a large portion of the Robotech RPG Tactics Kickstarter's success was a double handful of big spenders and the high cost of entry for a tabletop game. It also helped that you had BattleTech fans getting in on that to get miniatures for the Unseen. Similarly - credit where it's due - the Robotech Academy Kickstarter tanked in no small part because it offended the nostalgia of Robotech fans by 1. being yet another story set around the Sentinels period without actually being a resolution of Robotech II: the Sentinels, 2. blatantly attempting to surf Carl Macek's coffin to fully-funded status while using his corpse as a human shield against criticism, and 3. sporting even worse animation than the failed and much-maligned Robotech: the Shadow Chronicles OVA. It was a triple-threat of Do Not Want for nostalgia-driven Robotech fans. Titan's Robotech comic seems to be in similar straits to RPG Tactics... it's an ugly mess and almost nobody seems to have anything nice to say about it, but it's limping along thanks to some die-hards who are digging deep to Collect Them All even though they'll be worth less than their cover price in a couple years. Knowing the guy in question, I'm pretty sure it's not just that he's a bad typist...
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    So... Star Trek: Picard is trying to be intellectual today. Episode 7's title is Nepenthe, the mythical medicine from The Odyssey that cures your sorrows by making you forget them using laser-guided amnesia. I think after this season is over, we'll all be wanting a serving to forget this awful mess of a show. The Good The Bad The Ugly
  12. Seto Kaiba
    ... marrying or even dating Worf is a serious occupational hazard in Star Trek. The guy's had two legal wives murdered, and in the relaunch novelverse just dating him was as sure a death sentence as putting on a red shirt to beam down with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. At least one of his girlfriends got vaporized by a Breen commando unit.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    After seven seasons and three movies of "Will they or won't they?", a lot of fans would be depressed as hell if it turned out Riker and Troi didn't have a happy marriage.
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    For many of them, it's a matter of having interacted with them in a discussion/debate setting for years. Over 15 years in a few cases. You don't talk to someone for that long and not end up learning at least a little bit about who they are and what their lives are like. For Robotech fans in general? No. For Robotech's most "devout", fanatical, vocal fans? Probably, yeah. This is part of why I was somewhat hesitant to actually mention it... that people might think I was implying that. I am not. We'd have ended up here anyway if I'd just flatly denied that a lot of Robotech's most vocal fans don't have the discretionary income to blow on multiple DVD re-releases of the series and collectibles. I know a few who were quite salty about not being able to afford to pledge for Cap's Southern Cross kit proposal. (For what little it's worth, the Robotech fans I would rate as among the worst and most detrimental to their fandom are a pack of academics who seem to have been men on a mission to misinform.)
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Riker's got a kid too, huh? So does this mean we're gonna see Dad!Riker wandering around his space cabin in cargo shorts, sandals with socks, and a fanny pack? Given how depressing Star Trek: Picard is, I have to wonder if we'll find out Will Riker's accidental twin Thomas died in a Cardassian prison or something. Or maybe the trauma will just get sillier and we'll find out Will Riker was hounded out of Starfleet by a malfunctioning replicator that wouldn't stop putting horseradish on his prime rib.
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    Probably not, IMO... there isn't that much fold quartz in the body of your average Vajra and it's mostly the small, low-quality stuff that the Frontier fleet was using to manufacture MDE munitions. There is one very brief scene in Macross Frontier Ep16 "Ranka Attack" @1:15 where we see a pair of SMS VF-25s (Alto's VF-25F and a Brownie) towing four strung-together Vajra general soldier corpses towards the Frontier fleet. The larger, higher-purity fold quartz crystals are only present in more advanced Vajra forms and probably get damaged often during combat given that they're situated near center mass. Well, we know the Zentradi don't really give a damn about recovering destroyed assets... as the galaxy is strewn with debris fields made up of Zentradi wreckage. The New UN Forces are presumably a bit more inclined to recover lost assets, though that presumably depends on whether it is economical or safe to do so. We see a few NUNS ships in Macross Frontier that would absolutely NOT be safe to attempt to salvage because they'd become Vajra nests. There's an account in Master File of an emigrant fleet self-destructing any ships that were too damaged or too slow to escape an attacking Zentradi main fleet using dimension eaters to prevent the Zentradi from studying them. A lot of the time when a mecha or ship is lost onscreen, it goes kaboom in a pretty spectacular fashion so recovery isn't an option... like when Luca's RVF-25 had to be abandoned inside a Vajra ship which was then blown to bits by the Macross Quarter's main gun.
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    As noted on previous occasions, you are... unusual... in that respect.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Is that a spoiler for tonight's? If so, you've made me sad.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, Strategic Military Services' parent company Bilra Transport had what you'd call a controlling interest in the Frontier Government thanks to having sponsored the fleet's mission to the galactic core... for Richard Bilra, everything the fleet went through was about gaining access to huge amounts of fold quartz so that he could make his dream of overcoming fold faults a reality. Of course, New UN Government regulations on the mining and sale of fold quartz probably greatly inconvenienced his plans there... in the name of not having planet-killing fold bombs proliferating like mad.
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    AFAIK, we've never been told what the New UN Government calls the former Vajra hive planet that the Macross Frontier emigrant fleet landed on. At the very least, it probably has an itemization code like M55NGC6909 AKA "Messiah 025", the planet where the VF-25 was flight-tested for the first time. If the Vajra had a name for it, the only people who'd know would be Ranka Lee and Sheryl Nome, and they apparently aren't talking. Given how much fold quartz was on that planet, I'd be prepared to bet someone tried to name it "Paydirt". A VERY large, VERY old Vajra nest which is home to that Vajra swarm's queen that's absolutely packed with fold quartz.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    "We're doomed." - C-3PO Sounds like the best they came hope for is that The Rise of Skywalker will have lowered their audience's standards significantly. *looks at the high regard fans seem to hold Knights of the Old Republic in* ... yup, they're doomed.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, this is a problem that Robotech has been grappling with for a long time now... and something that Titan's Remix plays with in one of its more self-aware moments by taking cheap shots at the Legioss (RT: Alpha) being nowhere near a capable fighter compared to the VF-1 or VF-4. It's had an impact on the RPG, it caused a lot of grumbling when they instituted an official canon in their reboot, and even spawned conspiracy theories about merchandising.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    This.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    None yet. It's on my to-do list, but it'll be literal years before my group gets to it.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Eh... it's not even necessarily the R-word itself. It's that that franchise and its fanbase have devolved into cringe comedy.
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