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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Just finished Isekai Cheat Magician's 7th episode, and I have to say it's far and away the laziest show I've seen in YEARS. Nothing about it stands out except for how incredibly generic it all is. They killed off a character in this episode, and it was almost literally random. It came out of nowhere, it made no sense, and there was no reason for the protagonist to be broken up about it since he barely knew the person and she'd been trying to kill him previously. If it weren't so obviously trying to take itself seriously, I'd suspect it was a stealth parody.
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    Probably still making vending machines that stalk people through the streets...
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    The non-canon comic books and the Star Trek Relaunch novelverse have both featured Mirror!Picards. The Mirror!Picard of the Star Trek Relaunch novelverse is very much like Mirror!Spock from TOS, actually a decent person despite being surrounded by knife-wielding psychopaths. IIRC, when the Terran rebellion and its allies manage to overthrow the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance and establishes the Mirror Universe's equivalent of the Federation, he ends up in command of the Enterprise and leads a diplomatic mission to the Dominion (who are a generally-benevolent bunch in the Mirror Universe).
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    Sean Connery said the same once... that's how we got Never Say Never Again, literally.
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    I dunno, there are characters who aren't food snobs (e.g. Eddington, Paris, Janeway) who insist that replicators often do a pretty poor job with even simple dishes like tomato soup or pot roast. (Janeway and replicated pot roast becomes something of a running joke in Voyager, with it being suggested as a way to fend off the Kobali.) Very likely. Most of the other Starfleet ships we see in the same time period usually have a mess hall, and on occasion we've seen an additional senior officer's mess and/or a captain's mess. (Voyager's captain's mess became Neelix's kitchen.)
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    Bounding Into Comics seems to be running with the Google Trends Star Trek: Discovery story. https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/08/22/google-trends-charts-hint-cbs-star-trek-discovery-might-be-a-complete-failure/
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    Brian Daley, one half of the "Jack McKinney" duo, was writing Star Wars novels almost a full decade before he teamed with James Luceno to write Robotech's novelizations. He did a trilogy called The Han Solo Adventures, the first of which was published in September 1979. Yeah, it was a mess... End of the Circle is rightly considered an atrocity even by most Robotech fans.
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    No way that lot could afford coke. That clueless lot were probably smoking oregano their dealer told them was weed. Well, that's what happens when your author C.S. Goto's you (before C.S. Goto was even a thing)... you get a shitty plot that was originally written for a completely different story, that often isn't even in the same genre. To this day I'd swear half those Robotech novels started out as rejected drafts for Star Wars books. It'd certainly explain why the books introduced something that was basically the Force and why all the VFs have energy shields. I'll laugh long and hard if that's how this mess ends... "by the way, you Robotech fans wasted the last 30 years of your lives. We're writing this garbage out once and for all."
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    This looks like a trailer for a "Making of" featurette, not a movie.
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    Since the war with the Machines is over, let's just go all-in on the cyberpunk dystopia and make it a stealth prequel to Blame!.
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    HG's license is still exclusive WRT the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross series (and DYRL? as well, which they picked up the merchandising rights and ONLY the merchandising rights for around 2001).
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    Oh, he's one of those carbon copy characters that was made for Robotech II: the Sentinels back in the 80's. He was the amoral mad scientist counterpart to good superscientist Dr. Lang (the character Macross fans know as the nameless chief engineer). He wasn't important except in the godawful novels, and his only real appearance of note since the reboot in '01 was getting arrested for high treason. Not a particularly interesting character, he was just your standard amoral mad scientist character.
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    Wait, you mean to say there are actual human beings posting there? I thought it was just spambots spamming spambots. Maybe Pinhead from Hellraiser would be more appropriate, since he seems to think that this comic is a sight he has to show others.
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    While there are undeniably less elaborate ways to engage in self-harm, who are we to kink-shame him?
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    Presumably out of courtesy for any silent psychopaths on these boards that might actually want to read the comics?
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    Probably best to wait for some kind of official statement from the SDCon organizers.
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    Well, either that or they used a different set of search terms to compile their data. After a bit more fiddling last night, I'm inclined to suspect a little from Column A, and a little from Column B. I did some experimenting with searches on series acronyms and with vs. without the colon in the title and found that it WAS actually possible to reproduce some of their results. It's slightly more problematic to use Discovery's official acronym since that's shared with all manner of other DSCs, whereas TNG, DS9, and VOY largely have Star Trek as the dominant user of the abbreviation. If you specify that the search term is an American television series, most of Star Trek: Discovery's apparent advantage disappears and its performance is very similar to the other Star Trek shows barring spikes around the premieres of each season of the series in worldwide search performance. (MUCH less pronounced for season two though.) I'm not sure how odd this necessarily is, since these shows are still on the air in reruns around the world. If they weren't, it'd probably be a bad sign for Discovery. Curiously, in the by-region breakdown, search interest in Star Trek: Discovery is mostly localized in Asia and Eastern Europe. Of the 42 regions to be identified in the query in the time window I specified (Nov 1 2015 to today) that covers the lifespan of Star Trek: Discovery's development and production from the first public announcement onwards, there are only 2 western european countries in the top 10 (France and Spain) and the United States is #40 of 42, with only Hungary and Japan showing less non-zero interest. If Doomcock had made the argument that Star Trek: Discovery is far and away the least searched among North American audiences he'd have had an entirely valid point. The US is in the top 10 for searches made on every other Star Trek show save Enterprise... and even Enterprise has a 14 place lead over Discovery at 26. I'm mildly curious if Star Trek: Discovery's damn-near-last-place performance in the US is due to the (richly deserved, IMO) antipathy that many fans in the west seem to have for it, or the show's exclusivity to the CBS All Access platform that so many fans felt was a bridge too far. YouTube pundits like Doomcock, Nerdrotic, and to a lesser extent MechaRandom42 are kind of like the Hunter S. Thompsons of the fandom critical commentary world. They adopt a gonzo journalism-esque style heavily freighted with their own emotional reactions, occasionally make a good point, but are mostly just ranting and raving. Most of the fun watching them is just in how wound-up they get... especially Doomcock, who seemingly understands and appreciates that people watch him for his hamminess far more than his content. They all belong to that weird, seemingly amnestic bunch of pundits who love to rant and rave about how political correctness is supposedly destroying the entertainment industry... having apparently forgotten that the media of yesteryear was often FAR less subtle about the exact same Aesops. (Many of us, I'm sure, remember how often cartoon characters in Saturday morning cartoon shows used to break the fourth wall to make a point about how Drugs Are Bad, Discrimination is Bad, etc.. GI Joe's memetically famous "Knowing is half the battle" hasn't been forgotten by most viewers and they were FAR from the only ones doing it, and Superman and Captain America were both doing it as far back as the 1940's and 1950's.) That's clickbait journalism for ya... as much as they (esp. Nerdrotic) like to rant about the sins of the access media, they're basically just as bad. Star Trek always had the "SJW narrative". TOS was one of the most progressive, envelope-pushing, unsubtle society-critiquing shows on television. Gene Roddenberry's progressive politics just blended near-seamlessly into his vision of an optimistic, utopian future for humanity. Put simply, Star Trek lived and breathed its message. They could get on the pulpit without it feeling like a lecture because that was just how things were in the 23rd century. Star Trek: Discovery's showrunners f*cked it up by turning the 23rd century of their series into a grimdark, hopeless, dystopian future. Instead of blending in as a natural part of that bright future, a progressive message felt like a grating soapbox screed made all the more grating by the showrunners crowing about it. A speech on the rights of man is not out of place coming from a decent, morally upright person like Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, or Archer... but it doesn't feel particularly congruous coming from an obvious psychopath like Lorca or someone whose character-establishing moment was multiple acts of violent bigotry like Burnham.
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    I'll second that. I'm guessing that was a Japan exclusive? If I'd seen an Enterprise-D kit of THAT level of quality, I'd probably have snapped it up if it was sold in the US. I'm struggling not to make a "wants the D" joke here. I really am.
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    Did s'more messing around in Google Trends and I still can't reproduce the results Doomcock is crowing about. Star Trek: Discovery definitely wasn't a hot search term after the show started airing and word got around what a turdburger it was, and Star Trek: Picard seems to have worn out its novelty surprisingly quickly, but they definitely trended above TNG for a while.
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    More like Why is The Matrix 4? The ending of the Matrix trilogy did NOT cry out for further continuation. It had what was, essentially, a happily ever after.
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    We did get onto a rather odd tangent there because of the surface detailing on the Aoshima Enterprise-D, didn't we? For what it's forth, this kind of attention to detail both on the part of the original designers and the model/toy manufacturer is one of the main factors in whether or not I'll open my wallet for a particular model/toy. I mean, look at that Aoshima Tekering posted. With that level of detail, it looks practically as good as the original shooting model... and that thing was almost the size of a small sedan. (Looking at my Diamond Select Enterprise-A and Enterprise-B, it feels like a weird omission to be missing some of that realistic surface detail.)
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    Voyager's crew must suffer... that's why Neelix is the cook. Who else could bring an entire starship to a screeching halt with nothing more than a nice sharp cheese? Oh, they are... it's a memory/resolution issue. Transporters deconstruct and reconstruct a person down to the quantum level, which consumes an ENORMOUS amount of memory. The physical patterns of a handful of people were sufficient to consume all available computer core memory on Deep Space Nine's main computer and supporting systems. The rest of the pattern had to be dumped into the capacious standalone buffers of Quark's holosuite arcade, requiring a third set of extremely powerful computers to recomposite their patterns and rematerialize them. Because replicators have to store hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of patterns they only store that pattern data down to the molecular level and they engage in a bit of cheating when it comes to things like texture and consistency of complex structures. That's why (according to Eddington anyway) replicated food is a always a bit off... the shortcuts which the replicators employ the provide a nutritionally complete entree that closely resembles the desired meal mean that what you get will be slightly off in terms of texture, flavor, etc. That lower resolution is also why they can't replicate living tissue except using special experimental replicators with much higher resolution (the genetronic replicator that they used to put together a new spine for Worf).
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    Dilithium crystals don't generate or store energy, they're porous to light element matter and antimatter at extremely high temperatures and pressures so they're used to moderate the matter-antimatter pair annihilation reaction. The matter and antimatter streams meet inside the dilithium crystal, and the resulting high-energy plasma is used to transfer that energy where it's needed. Star Trek: Voyager's writers made it out to be pretty energy-intensive, which is why Captain Janeway instituted rationing of replicator usage early on and the show maintained it through its conclusion. Not a huge issue for a Starfleet ship operating within easy distance of a deuterium and antideuterium refueling complex, but for a ship 75,000ly from home with no easy way to refuel its all-important reserves of antideuterium, conserving energy would've been important. (The writers proceeded to shoot themselves in the foot by having Voyager's holodecks running more or less constantly, even though replicators are a big part of what makes holodecks work. The excuse that the holodeck's power system wasn't compatible with the rest of the ship made no sense at all. This was made slightly worse by an apparent misconception on a number of different writers part that deuterium was rare. Yeah, it only makes up 0.02% of hydrogen in Earth's oceans, but that's still an awful lot and it's pretty easy to convert regular hydrogen to deuterium with the right equipment... which is the entire point of bussard collectors.)
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    Replicators were the part of Gene Roddenberry's vision for Star Trek: the Next Generation that Ron Moore and Ira Behr were least happy with. As Ron Moore put it: So, once Gene was out of full control over Star Trek the idea was gradually introduced that replicators were imperfect devices that were very limited in what they could produce. There were all kinds of materials that couldn't be replicated (including a number of essential materials for starship manufacture and maintenance), some objects/devices were too complex to replicate in one piece and had to be replicated one piece/assembly at a time and assembled by hand, and that as a result of the complexity issue and nutrition-focused programming the DS9 and VOY writers favorite hobby horse: that replicated food was often easily distinguishable from the genuine article... occasionally to the extent of being unpalatable. There was probably some material in the photon torpedoes that USS Voyager was issued that couldn't be replicated... besides the antimatter in the warhead, which Voyager wouldn't have been able to replicate but which they would've had plenty of anyway.
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    Hm... assuming that older officer on the Horizont at the beginning was the commander of Mars Base's 21st Armored Battle Company, 2101 could refer to 1st Lt. Bernard being part of (probably leader of, given his rank) 21st Company's 1st Platoon.
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