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  1. JB0
    So... remember Space Ghost: Coast to Coast? And how you loved it and no one should care it was a vicious mockery because Space Ghost was a low-budget garbage show anyways? Then Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law? Second verse, same as the first? Yeah. This is just more of the same. Abusing something they have the rights to, because making a screwed-up mockery will bring in more views than treating it with respect. What I'm saying is that if you watched Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, this is your fault.
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    I have no words. Just... just no.
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    Because melodrama.
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    Quite so. I'm not saying that no good stories can be told, just that Hollywood won't allow it to happen. They're gonna try to polish it for maximum mainstream appeal, and take off all the facets that make it interesting in the process. Alien, man... that's just a consecutive trainwreck of bad ideas crashing into more bad ideas. I do note that predators aren't exactly immune to military hardware either. Or even non-hardware. Arnie messed the original one up with some logs and mud, after all. Both Alien and Predator were pretty similar in the hook for the initial film, though. One lone, largely unseen creature messin' people up unopposed, taken out by the last survivor through a combination of wit, cunning, and just plain luck. Obviously, they've both travelled in different directions since then, seeking ever-larger spectacle. And both have made occasional attempts to "get back to basics".
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    I said should, not will.
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    Man, Predator is one of those movies that should be allowed to rest, like Alien and Terminator. There was a good film or two, but the modern movie industry rarely allows anything with name recognition to generate a great movie. And with this much name recognition, it is hard to even get a GOOD movie out of it as they desperately try to sanitize it and polish it for maximum mainstream appeal. I mean, if they want to go full-on bananas, I'd watch a cinematic adaptation of the old Capcom AVP arcade brawler, but other than that... leave the aliens-as-mad-scientist plot to someone else. It's called Predator, not Gene Splicer.
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    Well, crap.
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    YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    So they're flashin' twelve, but it's high noon anyways? Full disclosure: I had one of the bioroid figures as a kid. And his hoverboard platform. I think we got 'em out of a Sears surplus store after the RT toyline was shut down. I thought it was pretty neat, and the hoverboard was just awesome. In hindsight, that was a pretty ugly figure(they all were). I stand by the hoverboard, though. I think it even had ball bearings on the underside instead of wheels so it could roll sideways and diagonally, which was PRETTY COOL.
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    Unless it's digital.
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    I honestly value "all the media in the world not being under the control of a single board of directors" a lot more than I do "slight chance of getting an Fantastic Four movie that doesn't suck." It's a pretty easy call.
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    While I agree with you entirely, citing Toynami as a bastion of taste and good judgement seems... dubious?
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    On the other hand, it starts with a narrative infodump that says "Yeah, all that stupid crap we set up at the end of the first movie? Resolved off-camera because no one wants to see any of it. Except the part where the president was replaced by an evil doppelganger, because that actually sounds awesome." I have to respect a sequel that opens with "that last movie was dumb and we are ignoring everything we can"
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    My understanding is GIJoe 2 bombed horribly because no one wanted a sequel to the first nive-action film. It was actually pretty good, though.
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    It just looks really familiar, but I can't place it.
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    New Duke? I thought we hated Lieutenant Falcon.
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    This is now the "Third-party Optimus Primes" thread. If I remember right, the big bot used the axe in War For Cybertron. Though I guess that was a different Optibotimus.
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    http://www.lcv.ne.jp/~mgs1987/gimic2c/x68ver2z2.html Long, painfully babelfish'ed story short, this dude took a chiptune board, mounted it in a custom case so it looks just like a real(ly small) X68000 computer. ... And then he created a box and manual and tiny little replicas of 5¼" disks to go in the tiny little floppy drives with working tiny little eject buttons, and a tiny little LCD monitor attached to tiny little speakers, and ... yeah, you get the idea. The chiptune player is actually controllable with a real X68k gamepad/joystick. The keyboard port only has power pins, so while an X68k keyboard will light up when connected, you can't actually use it for input. The mouse port is purely cosmetic. Someone needs to teach this guy FPGA programming and reverse-engineering so he can make an actual computer. It would be awesome.
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    Even acoounting for that... apparently Drill Robo and Eagle Robo are the same designer, and they take almost completely opposite approaches. Nice Cy-kill. I'd probably touch the knees up, but leave the chrome alone.
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    I've never had a bad CPU. Bad mobo once or twice, a vidcard or two, and enough RAM that I won't buy online because I EXPECT to need an exchange, but never CPU.
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    So, I was looking at videos of some more of these guys(I still only own Screwhead), and it seems like Tank/Battle Robo came out amazingly well. Which is doubly impressive given how lazy the original was(Fold in half at the waist, you're done. Ignore the arms hanging out on the side, please). Transformation is almost completely different to the original(understandably), but he still gives the same impression in both modes, and he looks like he's still pretty easy to transform(though not AS easy, because how COULD he be?). While well-articulated, he has very few balljoints(which wouldn't work well with his chunky aesthetic). Swivels in the thigh, the bicep, the wrist... even his flippin' HEAD can rotate, despite being embedded in a giant plastic wedge(DARK MAGIC). On the other hand, he's cyan instead of dark blue, his tank treads and forward guns are too small. On the third hand, it DOES further the impression that these aren't a single line so much as a random collection of unrelated toys. (I just used my entire daily allotment of parentheses in this post)
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    I played with Bug Bite until he broke. The plastic that made the roof up started cracking, and then he was a convertible. And then the little silver dude-ish thing fell out. I think he wound up in the trash shortly afterwards. Zat is an excellent point! Ze Transformers, they do not have zis monocle!
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    I've only owned one LG phone, and it died in a week or two. In fairness, it was also the cheapest phone available. It was a crap phone, but so was every phone at that price point. I only got it because my old one had just broken and I felt the need to be in immediate contact due to other events. ... I also didn't pay for it. I'd ordered online for instore pickup, and there was apparently confusion at the store. And while I was trying to figure out what to do about the e-mail that said "you never picked your phone up, so we're refunding your money" the phone died. Which made the decision a lot easier. (I don't even know how you explain that. "Hi, I bought this phone and you refunded my money because I never picked it up, but I DID pick it up. But then it died. So can you charge my card for the phone since I DID buy it, but then refund it since it is kinda broken shiznit? Thanks.")
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    I see them as cannons, mostly because they're on Megatron. And really, when you get down to it, a rocket is just a really big flamethrower anyways.
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    I don't have one, but I like QNAP better because their designs look like the expansion box for my old TI computer.
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