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  1. JB0
    He's got some of the ol' Kirk DNA in him, with a voice that slips right past input validation and into infinite loops. As always, I thank you for hate-watching this so I don't have to.
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    Insert DS9 clip of Worf complaining to Odo about security on DS9 here. ... Actually, I guess I CAN insert that here.
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    I believe my Optimus Prime did. I'd have to fish box contents out to be certain.
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    Oh yeah. The original Dinobots are peak sexy robot toy.
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    Yes, we know. You told us already.
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    I find it funny that for someone whose head is so clearly Shockwave-inspired, Amalgamous's body screams "dinobot". I don't know if Grimlock or Shockvwave is more offended at the idea they might be related.
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    It does. If I recall, some later print sources attribute it to the humans not knowing what they're doing, which is hard to align with the statements in the show. Not just Global Report, though it's the only part that just straight-up has to be cut out. When they switch from anti-grav to rocket thrusters while falling, Global says something like "at least those were made on Earth". Which could easily just be angry snark at the poorly-understood space magic that exited stage up... but then Global Report says the snark was justified and human error wasn't the cause. Meanwhile, the replacement gravity controllers are considered trustworthy when they're hovering over canadain population centers, so clearly the homemade replacements work fine. I think they use them when landing on Mars too. That strongly implies the flaw wasn't with the hardware. It is certainly possible that flaws in the terran-made units or operational procedure were identified and addressed offscreen between Booby Trap and Burst Point. But again, you still have Global Report's explicit root-cause statement denying that as the primary issue.
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    Not rumor, just exaggeration. One vendor has already started offering it as an option, and people missed the "option" part.
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    Man, I remember StarCom. I never had any of the toys, but they were right up my alley, as was the cartoon(what little I remember of it). Zoids is one of those franchises that for years I was just completely unsure how it failed to land on me. Learning more of the history in the last couple of years, I know how I missed it entirely... and it turns out I actually didn't, but only barely. For a very brief time, the line was available in the US under the name RoboStrux. And I lusted after the RoboStrux toys, but never owned any(few in America did). But I definitely SAW them, and they stuck in the back of my mind for years and years. Every so often I'd see these toys in my head again and I would try to find out what they were, but "robot dinosaur toy" is NOT a useful search term. When I started seeing Zoids stuff it looked weirdly familiar for some reason I couldn't place. This ALSO bugged me until I was looking at the series history for some unrelated reason and saw the variety of attempts made to sell it internationally and when I saw the RoboStrux name it pulled some truly ancient memories back out of the mental coffin they'd been consigned to in a huge "holy crap" moment.
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    I'd probably describe the original Gundam as "transitional". It wanted to not be a super robot show, but couldn't fully escape the genre trappings, and landed in what would now be considered a gray area.
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    Yeah, I typed, refined, and deleted an entire side-jaunt about the iconic and genre-defining Nostromo from Alien. If someole wants therr sci-fi hardware to look believable and lived-in, they're still referencing the Nostromo today.
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    Yeah, I don't think there's been any mass-market Gunstar. No toys, models, or statues. Just resin kits, 3D-printer files, and people selling the output from those 3D printer files.
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    I am quite fond of Ron Cobb's Gunstar, from Last Starfighter. it is a distinctive design that feels very believable. And also, those missile bays! Betcha the Starfury can't do a death blossom!
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    It's for Windows, yeah. I distrust 8bitdo. The couple of their controllers I've used had kinda awful d-pads, though I acknowledge these are much older controllers(an NES30 Pro and FC30 Pro that I got more because they were cute than because they were practical). I actually like a wired controller just for the simplicity of not caring about the battery, and the one I've been using is a ... PowerA Advantage Plus? Enhanced Advantage? Something like that. Aside from having a very pretty iridescent plastic face, it has two programmable back buttons and low-friction plastic inserts on the analog sticks. I actually really like it. But the left stick doesn't center strongly anymore so i get a lot of movement from it being slightly off-center these days, the left stick's low-friction ring is now worn and feels gritty, and the right rumble motor is dead(probably because I dropped it). The loose stick is the biggest issue. Anyways... High Score 100 disliked this post. Says he's all the controller I need, but he's just too small.
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    Understandable. The stores are terrible right now, the roads around them even worse. I was in a Target yesterday for non-robot-related reasons, and was surprised the sea of empty pegs and shelves had a full load of Hot Wheels Transformers. I now own a Twin Mill. Not a Boneshaker though, I think he's ugly. ... I do NOT own a working XBawks controller, which was most of why I was actually there. I have a half-working controller, and the new controller I bought to replace it is just non-working, so not really a viable replacement. And my assortment of other controllers are not of the standard layout and feature set, making them poor general-purpose devices.
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