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  1. Seto Kaiba
    ... eh, I disagree with your assessment of Valkyrie aesthetics in Macross sequels. As to drawing Mobile Suits by hand, what does it matter if they're hand-drawn if the show they're in is just a badly thought-out commercial for MSV Gunpla? There is no longer any kind of thought to Gundam beyond "buy our crap".
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    Ugh... 5x10^no thank you, Sunrise. It's like they've given up on trying to tell stories in favor of just making glitzy 22 minute commercials for toys.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Macross Chronicle does cover the Ozma and Isamu YF-29s in the mechanic sheet that also covers the YF-30 and YF-29B, so they may be a thing. I haven't translated the Macross 30 novelization yet.
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    ... now I kind of want an audio commentary of Super Dimension Fortress Macross by David Attenborough, narrated as though it were a nature documentary about the life and mating habits of the wild Regult. lol
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    Footraces.
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    I feel like this falls under the header of false advertising... this looks WAY more awesome than the admittedly pretty-awful game actually is.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    No... but then, this "aircraft" clearly keeps itself in the air through the ground's sheer unwillingness to touch something so profoundly ugly.
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    True, landing on a copy of Titan Comics' Robotech is a dire fate even for bird feces... but gravity is a terribly harsh mistress who doesn't play favorites. It's not like the comic is fit for anything else apart from, perhaps, kindling. It's certainly not meant to be read, except outside of the countries where the constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Reminds me of a line from Blackadder Goes Forth... "Ah, yes, without question my favorite magazine; soft, strong, and thoroughly absorbent."
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    Not after you've used the comic to paper the bottom of a birdcage, no.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Since we had a long lunch today during a meeting marathon, I caught the latest episodes of To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts and Magical Sempai. To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts is starting to feel like it ran out of tricks and is desperately rummaging around for something to show the audience. I feel like this episode was bait-and-switch, since they promised some progress towards finding Cain Madhouse and it was another monster-of-the-week episode instead. Really a dick move after the setup in the previous episode [...] Once again, Nancy is completely useless and still refuses to accept that the Incarnates are beyond saving because they've lost human reason. The only thing that's really noteworthy is that [...] Magical Sempai's pretty fanservice-y this week, with a fairly stock cliche bit about the titular sempai overhearing what she thinks is her assistant saying he loves her (he's actually praising a prop) and inviting him to her place to gently turn him down before finding out she misunderstood. They do seem to be setting up a love triangle with the chemistry club lead though, which had some mildly entertaining moments.
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    It's... adequate... for basic stuff like living wills, standard forms of contract, etc. but for the complex stuff there's often no reasonable substitute for an actual lawyer. Harmony Gold could've avoided a LOT of problems over the Robotech franchise's history if they'd bothered to get proper legal advice from a qualified legal expert instead of relying on the legal equivalent of crib notes. Not very well, but they do pay them... which is why the franchise's attempt to reinvent itself as a credible anime property was stillborn. They weren't willing to spend the kind of money necessary to retain the kind of talent pool you need to do something like that. Instead, they hired fans who were willing to work for relatively paltry sums. (Curiously, there are several fans who seem to envy this...)
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    ... so you missed the joke completely, then? Nobody's criticizing them for outsourcing legal, the joke being that incompetence is so intrinsic to everything HG does that simply being competent makes the legal counsel they've retained stick out like a sore thumb. (You know, when people think of corporations lawyering up their mental image is of a professional corporate lawyer... even though those only really exist in the big corporations, not little fly-by-night outfits like HG.) (Mind you, they seem to use legalzoom for things they really oughtn't, like processing cease and desists and using their free legal dictionary in an attempt to understand the terms of their own license... leading to cockups like their claim that having used MOSPEADA designs with permission in derivative works made them owners of the MOSPEADA designs, which earned them the ire of Tatsunoko in arbitration.)
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    An important distinction should be made that I am not the author of the Macross Mecha Manual... I handle research, book-hunting, and backend administration tasks so that its author, Mr March, doesn't need to worry about fiddly administrative trivia. To sum it up with a pithy turn of phrase, it's Mr March's baby, I'm the babysitter. I have it on excellent authority that a lot of Harmony Gold's "legal" department is actually handled by legalzoom.com. It's only for lawsuits that they hire actual lawyers... presumably because they couldn't find someone with a law degree from Trump University, the Albert Merrill School, or another sham university.
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    KonoSuba is entertaining as long as you don't think too hard about it... but it also wears out its welcome VERY quickly because the recurring joke is that Kazuma will never be allowed to make any lasting progress towards his goal. The anime ends pretty much at the point where it would've started getting really tedious.
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    No... there are still casual Robotech fans who don't know, and Robotech fans themselves constantly muddy the waters with the aforementioned constant efforts to "adopt" Macross sequel content into Robotech. I get, as webmaster for the Macross Mecha Manual, 1-2 emails every month asking why the site doesn't cover Robotech-specific mecha like the "YF-1R" or the mecha of the Southern Cross and MOSPEADA shows. Their legal counsel is formidable precisely because it isn't theirs. If they had an in-house corporate lawyer I'm sure he/she would be as dozy and incompetent as the rest of the HG staff. Their lawyers are only capable because they don't work for Harmony Gold itself.
  16. Seto Kaiba
    There are recent Star Trek comics? Not being sarcastic here, I've heard nothing. I know they did some for Bad Reboot's not-a-reboot timeline in a desperate attempt to milk a fandom that didn't exist which didn't sell very well... but that was ages ago. Wasn't that TAS, though? There wasn't much to do afterwards, since Enterprise put in for a multi-year refit and Kirk got promoted to a desk job pushing papers for Admiral Nogura. A lot of the old Star Trek comics were pretty bad. I remember some TOS movie era ones that were kind of unusual, a lot of revisiting old TOS plots, but they had a first Klingon officer in Starfleet (a Klingon pacifist defector named Konom) before TNG came along and introduced Worf in that capacity. The ones I remember really well were that short-lived Starfleet Academy series, which was short-lived for good reason. When it wasn't succumbing to the worst sins of the comics industry, it was harping on Roddenberry's utopian ideal in ways that even Roddenberry himself would've considered in screamingly poor taste.
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    Now there's an idea... "let's make it look like a relative of a design that was considered a nigh-useless flying coffin both in the original Southern Cross AND in Robotech".
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Oh, we want it... we just know not to expect it because Macross Delta isn't about things like properly developed characters or well-choreographed mecha action sequences. It's about selling Walkure albums and concert tickets first and nothing second. Not sure they even need to bother, they've still got stuff from the TV series and the last movie left undone. They only JUST put out a Chuck Mustang DX, and they still haven't released the VF-31 Armored Pack, Bogue's Sv-262Ba, Roid's Sv-262Hs, and Mirage's Sv-262Ba.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    You mean you've never seen it? Man, you missed out. Get thee to DS9, stat! There's more heart and soul in that one episode about a secondary DS9 character than there is in the entirety of Discovery and all three Bad Reboot movies. (Honestly, Keevan almost steals that episode, with the incredible amount of contempt he manages to sneak into his last words of "I hate Ferengi".)
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Well, in the sense that a D- is a passing grade...
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Well, we've already had a Ferengi version of The Magnificent Seven... with Iggy Pop as the bad guy, no less.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    KILL IT WITH FIRE!
  23. Seto Kaiba
    It's not quite that bad. If the rumored CBS-Viacom re-merger talks bear fruit, the Star Trek rights will once again be united under a single company and the legal obstacles that foisted the Star Trek reboot and ongoing presence of Bad Reboot on the franchise will go away. Not exactly its original intent... the term was coined back when Jar-Jar Abrams was first let loose on the defenseless Star Trek franchise and the fans understandably expressed some significant, borderline riotous, objections to the idea of rebooting Star Trek from the TOS era onward. Paramount hastened to "clarify" (read: "cover its arse") by explaining that Star Trek (2009) was not a reboot and had no impact on the established Star Trek setting because it was set in an alternate universe created by events in the correct Star Trek timeline of the original shows. Star Trek: Discovery's creative staff appropriated the term years later as a way to insist that Star Trek: Discovery wasn't in the late, unlamented Star Trek not-a-reboot timeline which had been established by Star Trek (2009). It became Bad Reboot's way of shouting down fans who insisted that Star Trek: Discovery didn't look like Star Trek. "Who cares if it looks totally unlike Star Trek, it's in the Prime universe!". It wasn't a way to get fans to adopt the new standard so much as a way to try to get fans to excuse/overlook the new standard by claiming that it totally fit with everything else, honest! "I hate what J.J. did to Star Trek, so I'll do the same thing with the same actors only 100x as pretentious and incorporating my foot fetish."
  24. Seto Kaiba
    Canada's laws regarding copyright and derivative works are basically the same as the US's... because they're both based on the 1886 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, which more or less set the standard for 177 countries on that score.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Eh... it's not like it's a going concern anymore. Titan Comics stopped using his 3D model for their comic in response to the backlash against the design's aesthetic and the unnecessary replacement of the classic Kawamori VF-1 design and opted to trace from photographs of VF-1 Valkyrie toys instead. Why Titan bothered to change the designs in the first place is unclear, since there was literally no reason to do so. It didn't work out so good for them, in the end.
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