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  1. Seto Kaiba
    All right, I'm gonna go behold the IMAX edition of this turdburger of a movie in person tomorrow to see if it's as bad as it's cracked up to be.
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    The pre-existing thread for it:
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Honestly, the worse the reviews get the more I kinda wanna actually go see it just to see how much of a dumpster fire it really is. 🤣
  4. Seto Kaiba
    You're as sane as I am... which now that I think about it probably isn't at all reassuring. This is overpriced by at least a factor of four considering it's just a metal version of the Playschool toy with LEDs and a screen that displays three different animated GIFs.
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    Yowch... $800.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    We all knew it was gonna be schlock... so the only thing that's really surprising about the reviews is how much they're struggling to find anything nice to say about the movie. 🤣 I disagree with IGN's claim that there's no videogame movie curse. There very clearly is one, because this film by any indication is one hell of a cursed object.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    If you think about it, it does feel a bit out-of-character for a company like Disney that has prided itself for a literal century on being a provider of unobjectionable, appropriate-for-all-ages, family friendly fun and entertainment to start carrying a medium like anime that often contains violence, potentially offensive humor, and fanservice of a sexual nature. Esp. now that Disney+ and Hulu have effectively merged and you can access Hulu's catalog via the Disney+ app. It's just a weird thought to think that something with as much blatant fanservice as Code Geass: Roze of the Recapture can be watched on Disney+ now. 🤣
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Right back at'cha, matey. But instead of getting upset, we could do the rational thing and recognize these opinions as representative samples of the anime hobbyist community. It's illustrative of why most distributors releasing newly licensed shows to streaming release them subs-only at first: because that's what a plurality, if not the majority, of the hobbyist community wants from new releases anyway. They can loop back and add the dub later and it's no skin off anyone's back as long as there's enough interest to justify the expense.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    From what I've seen, the anime is a fairly faithful adaptation of the light novel... which suggests none of the versions of the story are very good because the story itself is generic. With the anime, at least we get to see Jun Fukuyama do his very best Satoshi Hino impression. 🤪 The one title this season that's really stood out for me is the rather cute little romcom The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant... though I'm increasingly feeling like that's less due to it doing anything particularly distinctive and more due to the rest of the simulcast season being devoid of attention-getters.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Signs point to yes? There's a throwaway line in the second-to-last episode of Star Trek: Discovery ("Lagrange Point") where Ensign Tal mentions the Earth Defense Force has been visiting Mars in the 32nd century. Whether it's been recolonized or not, it's apparently at least safe to go there.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Apparently he'll be playing a space pirate that requires heavy makeup... quite a bit of fan speculation seems to be that he'll be playing recurring pirate Hondo from The Clone Wars.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    He could change that, he just didn't want to... as in "Life Line" when he actually gets upset with Dr. Zimmerman for changing it as part of an attempt to upgrade him with some quality-of-life improvements. The bigger problem is, IMO, that he's still around at all. He's over 800 years old, technologically, and by the time of Starfleet Academy even his mobile emitter is ~300 years old. He probably should've been taken offline like B4 was during the Federation's ban on artificial lifeforms and even in the 32nd century Starfleet prohibits self-aware AIs on its ships and bases... so if he's not really self-aware/sentient then why does he still exist at all, and if he is, why is he allowed anywhere in Starfleet?
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Nearly halfway into the current Summer 2024 simulcast season, and whooboy did this season turn out to be a crop of stinkers. Wistoria: Wand and Sword's fourth episode dropped this week... and I am so tired of its protagonist Will Serfort. He's a blatant Harry Potter expy, but even Harry Potter had far more grit than this guy. Will Serfort's a whiny, indecisive, absolute doormat and the longer the story drags on the more obvious it becomes that the other students who bully him and say that he doesn't belong at their magic school are, despite their rudeness, objectively correct. He can't use magic, so he's incapable of doing most of the coursework and would have long since flunked out if not for one professor keeping him enrolled via credits from field work he can complete using his physical prowess. Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools took five entire episodes to actually get to its main plot, and what it delivered was almost comically lazy. It's one of those weird revenge-fantasy sort of romance stories that starts with the protagonist's partner ending their relationship to be with someone else and then an impossibly perfect Hallmark hubby practically falls out of the f***ing sky and takes an immediate unprompted intense romantic interest in the newly single person. It's actually kind of unintentionally funny in how utterly lazy it is and how blatantly it's pandering. My Deer Friend Nokotan is just an Excel Saga-style drug trip. It's actually pretty fun for all of that, but it lacks those moments of self-awareness that took Excel Saga from merely weird to outrageously funny. My Wife Has No Emotion never really stops being cringeworthy. This is, after all, a romcom about a guy who's so terminally lonely that he fell in love with a ChatGPT-enabled kitchen appliance because it's vaguely girl-shaped and his definition of "woman" seemingly goes no farther than "domestic servant". 🙄 It's one of those titles where I really want to just find the original author and send them to therapy. Failure Frame is a pretty unremarkable isekai series. It's actually gotten a lot better for the lack of the protagonist's classmates, who are shown to be actually pretty incompetent despite their advanced skills. It is veering heavily into the fanservice side of matters now with the protagonist having acquired an elf girl sidekick who seems to have never heard about this marvelous invention called the "shirt". Every antagonistic male character seems to feel compelled to rant at length about how hot she is and how they want to sexually assault her... and at least one of them actually makes the attempt. The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human is pretty unremarkable as fantasy stuff goes. The animation is pretty consistently low quality and the writing is form letter for the most part.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    If Simmons's case is typical, Mars Base's candidates for cyborg soldier augmentation are frontline troops (infantry and pilots) who are killed or wounded unto death but whose bodies can be recovered, preserved or kept barely alive on life support, and shipped back to Mars. Simmons himself is in the latter category. He was wounded beyond any hope of survival on Earth but shipped back to Mars on life support, only to die while his transport was on approach to Mars colony. Well, there's nothing called a "Shadow Fighter" in Genesis Climber MOSPEADA or in Genesis Breaker... are you referring to the Dark Legioss? Genesis Breaker doesn't appear to have changed anything with respect to the Dark Legioss. The regular version is still a conventional Legioss that's had some stealth upgrades to mask its HBT emissions and make it harder to detect by other means. The unmanned Dark Legioss is still described as an unmanned conversion of the Dark Legioss fighter that's controlled by an onboard AI computer. There's nothing called "Mars City" in MOSPEADA either, as far as I can recall. As far as official material, there is "Mars Base" the military installation and "Mars colony" which refers to the actual civilian settlement(s). It doesn't really get any more specific than that. Some sources appear to conflate the two and refer to both as "Mars Base", like MOSPEADA Color Graffiti, which refers to the residential block that Stick grew up in as "Mars Base 22" and lists Stick and Yellow's hometown simply as "Mars Base". It's never actually seen except for Stick's one flashback in "Jonathan's Elegy", so we don't really have anything to go on. Genesis Breaker further muddies the waters there by treating "Mars Base" as the name of a specific armed service rather than one specific installation. Specifically, it presents "Mars Base" as another name for the Mars Army... a new armed service separate and distinct from Mars's defense forces that exists specifically and solely for the business of retaking Earth (and subsequently governing it as a colonial dominion of Mars). It does suggest that proper development of Mars for large-scale habitation was done after the unification of Earth, such that the individual experimental research stations were all folded into a single Mars colonization program.
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    You mean Simmons? Somewhere between a Dreadnought and Robocop, yeah. He's basically just a head, a spinal cord, and a bit of upper torso grafted into a military-grade robotic body. In one sense, it might actually be worse than both since Simmons and the other "robot" soldiers had their brains forcibly reactivated after clinical death to be offered the choice of accepting their demise or being installed in robotic bodies and sent back into the fight. Simmons is said to have died multiple times. His Ride Armor's closer to a 40K Dreadknight though. Genesis Breaker really REALLY reenvisioned MOSPEADA as an absolute hellhole of a setting... and not even on Earth, it's Mars that's the absolute hellhole.
  16. Seto Kaiba
    In all fairness, I'd say that's a certifiable non-issue. Unlike Data, who was a physical construct with a fixed appearance, the Doctor is a hologram. Every aspect of his appearance is entirely arbitrary and mutable. We've seen that he can modify his appearance to change his projected clothes (e.g. Fair Haven), to appear to be a member of another species ("Blink of an Eye") and/or gender ("Life Line"), or even to impersonate specific people ("Renaissance Man"). We know these abilities aren't unique either, because we've seen another EMH Mk.I reconfigured the same way in "Dr. Bashir, I Presume" to take on the appearance of Dr. Bashir. Appearing to age a bit is so far within what we already know he can do that it's readily excusible. He can play the "Screw you, I can look how I want" card every bit as effectively as the Founders. If they wanna digitally de-age him, they can even chalk the uncanny valley effect up to him being an obsolete hologram from 800 years ago.
  17. Seto Kaiba
    For the curious, Chapter X-1 "Simmons & Necessary" is a one-chapter short story that gives the broad strokes of Simmons's backstory. He was a miner working a deep sea mining platform in 2050 when the Invit first invaded, how he was gravely wounded in a friendly fire accident early in the resistance against the Invit occupation, escaped to Mars, and was rebuilt as a Robocop-style cyborg soldier to continue fighting. It ends with him being introduced to Necessary and inducted into the Breakers. Chapter X-2 "Case of Every" talks about Every's backstory and how she came to join the Breakers. Most of it covers her early career as a pharmaceuticals researcher developing a combat drug for the Mars Army in anticipation of a war of independence against Earth, before joining the anti-war/anti-Mars Gov't group "Woodpeckers". It briefly talks about her final, doomed mission as an anti-gov't operative to destroy a secret Mars Army thermonuclear weapons lab on Ganymede that culminated in her being captured and sentenced to 320 years of imprisonment in cryogenic suspension for her crimes. It ends with the Mars Base administration thawing her out 46 years later in 2082 to inform her she was being drafted to serve in the 2nd Earth Recapture mission. Chapter X-3 "Case of Eagle" talks about how Eagle came to join the Breakers. It starts with him being injured in an accident during a routine escort flight over Mars, then being briefeed on how his remote connections to the extremely wealthy family that founded the Intelligence Bureau led to him being selected for its secret mission to Earth during the 2nd Earth Recapture operation as a bodyguard for the mission's leader, Gate. It ends with him training Gate at a firing range and realizing, belatedly, that his memories of his life before the accident had been tampered with.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Eh... I'd recommend reducing your expectations a fair bit. Chapters X-1, X-2, and X-3 do have art... but with the exception of Chapter X-3 it's rough sketches that are way below the level of the art elsewhere in the book.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    If the Starfleet Academy writer's room is infested with the former occupants of the Discovery and Picard writer's rooms as it almost certainly will be, having him back at all feels like a lose-lose situation. I don't really wanna see the snarky, comedic EMH turned into yet another miserable bastard.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Beautiful and very tempting... but very expensive and with all the other starships Enterprise I've already got, I just can't justify it. If it were smaller scale and a bit cheaper, maybe...
  21. Seto Kaiba
    A Google search turned up pre-Disney art showing that character (or another of his species) with a generally humanoid bodyplan. Is that kid in the back a cyborg? I thought in Star Wars those were basically lobotomized meat robots...
  22. Seto Kaiba
    That's pretty normal for HLJ. They put more care into their packaging to ensure that goods don't get damaged in transit, so books tend to be shipped shrinkwrapped to a cardboard sheet in a box rather than just stuffed into an envelope. It's also why they offer a "private warehouse" to hold items for a month or two to allow you to batch items and get the best value out of the shipment cost. The copy I ordered from HLJ arrived just like yours, shrinkwrapped to cardboard and put into a box with paper wadding. The one I ordered from CD Japan was just stuffed haphazardly into a bubblepack envelope and shipped as-is.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    That looks like an anti-meth PSA. 🤣
  24. Seto Kaiba
    I'm worried about the kids. Look what Star Wars fans did to poor Jake Lloyd.😵‍💫 Disney's proven they can't even really do THAT right anymore, though... so I'd say it's safer to assume they'll find a way to screw it up.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    It's not Paramount+ that's for sale... it's Paramount itself. The current incarnation of Paramount was formed by re-merging CBS and Viacom in the hopes that consolidation would help them succeed with lower costs. It had the opposite effect because CBS and Viacom are two halves of a whole idiot, and so the company's been bleeding money and declining in valuation because many of their channels like MTV and VH1 aren't doing so hot and Paramount+ being the financial equivalent of a sucking chest wound thanks to its profound lack of content. They're looking for a Get Out of Jail Free card for the consequences of actions like selling billions of dollars in stock to fund the development and production of things like Star Trek: Discovery's seasons 3-5. Ah, but which one? Is this the original one from Star Trek: Voyager or the copy from "Living Witness" that was reactivated from a backup module in 3074? No kidding... this, like Discovery's third season, is a rescue from 80's and 90's Paramount's pile of rejected Star Trek series pitches. Various people have pitched the idea of a series set at Starfleet Academy half a dozen times or so, and it's always been rejected because the idea itself is boring and hard to write for. Starfleet Academy's basically just Space College and cadets don't get any dangerous/exciting duty even in field training. They even tried to make the concept into a comic book at one point, and it did so poorly it was cancelled after barely a year.
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