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    Actually, some experimental aircraft have done it IRL using large airpumps and an array of tiny ports on the wing. It turns out that dirt in the air is a not-insignificant issue, and plugged nozzles are a serious impediment to deployment.
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    Nice. I gotta say, the new chest fixes my biggest complaint with King of Beast.
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    I thought WEP bought those rights a good while back, but can't swear to it.
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    ENTIRELY understandable after the Sharon Apple "incident". Actually, it seems like Plus has had as much influence on the background setting, but very little visible influence on the foreground story.
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    You mean "besides Prowl and Soundwave"?
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    You know what? An awesome Jaegar Voltron will allow me to forgive most of the film's flaws.
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    Also the headlight/chestplate assembly.
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    You don't have to have the nicest blag, just... not the worst blag. Also, please keep posting them here as well.
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    What? This has been going on for a decade now. Nintendo is just super-late to the party and no one wants to admit it. MSX has already HAD "the Mini treatment". Twice.
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    Right. That was my main thing. Not that it looks high-tech instead of run-down, just that it doesn't look like it has actually ever been USED. (Star Trek usually has a similar issue. Though at the rate they suffer plasma leaks, there may be a very good justification for the lack of grease stains in engineering. ) Oh well... it is more or less what I expected from a sequel, as disappointing as that actually is. Giant Robots: Uprising, whoo..
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    "Hey, Neumann, buddy! Wanna commit treason with me, for old time's sake?" "How about no."
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    Okay, I have concerns. I am going to ignore these concerns when the movie comes out, but with neither Del Toro nor Beacham being involved, I am just going to see giant robots. Based on the trailer, it is Pacific Rim fanfic. Point 1: Why is everything so freaking CLEAN? Pacific Rim's hardware and bases all looked like they were where work happens. They were grungy and greasy and scuffed and scraped, on top of just being very utilitarian. This trailer presents a world where everyone has just barely had time to unload the Apple truck and MAYBE remove the shipping protectors. They are not where work happens, they are where coffee is drank. Pont 2: WHY ARE THE JAEGARS SMALLER? Seriously, there's two possibilities here. A. they thought the kaiju were coming back, in which case the jaegars shoudl be built to, at a minimum, solo a category 5. That requires a lot more mass and leverage than these things have. If you are eye-level with a kaiju's crotch, you are not built to fight a kaiju. B. they didn't think the kaiju were coming back at all, in which case there's no reason whatsoever to build jaegars of any size because they are horrifically expensive, difficult to maintain, require very specialized pilot teams, and they have no purpose. They are specialized tools, and simply not practical for regular warfare. A single fighter jet could take out a jaegar at a fraction of the cost. Point 3: Boyega just isn't as good at dramatic speechifying as Elba. This isn't really a slight on him, Elba just has a really powerful and commanding voice. Boyega has his strengths, Elba has different strengths, and they are asking Boyega to play to Elba's strengths instead of writing a part that works with Boyega. Point 4: Are they using infantry with assault rifles? SERIOUSLY? And not even in biohazard suits?
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    Because it looks awesome.
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    In seriousness, I think that the "choked by not-Megatron" head is a brilliant accessory... which makes it more a pity that Howling Meteor is so bereft of detail that he looks like a vinyl statue instead of a "proper toy".
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    Does this mean that Howling Meteor and Despotron are now a combiner?
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    I'm just amused by the "glowing eye" effect. As always, it bears pointing out that Valk eyes DO NOT GLOW. Not canonically, and not in any stylized animation shots. And while it can look cool anyways... there's not enough light diffusion here to make it look like the entire lens is glowing. It is very obviously a single LED. Seriously, put those LEDs in the thrusters so those big thrust effects glow instead. Right now, we have the odd situation where parts that AREN'T supposed to glow do, and parts that ARE supposed to glow(because they are literally fire) don't. ... Oh well. At least they made sure the entire head doesn't light up.
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    But if the Stampede's writeup is correct, it wasn't meant for dogfighting. It was meant to be a shipbuster, without resorting to reaction weapons. A Strike Valkyrie doing the Stampede's job wouldn't carry the UUM-7, it would carry RMS-1 reaction warheads. (Which is largely why I assume the Stampede has a more powerful beam cannon than the Strike).
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    I'mma gonna guess it is some kind of development TESTbed. More seriously, probably a FAST pack prototype.
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    I never saw a single episode of Cybertron, but bought several of the toys because they were cool robots. Some were pretty cool homages, even. I really like Cybertron Optimus, perhaps by way of my Powermaster Prime affection.
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    That is why I love it, the absurd overarmored overgunned style. ... Heavyarms just WISHES it had that beam cannon on the right arm, though.
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    You know, as ridiculous as the Transformers/Eva mashup concept is, I am REALLY digging that look. For the low, low price of YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL?
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    Me too! Someone linked me the official music video for the first Railgun opening. I looked up the show to see WTF that video was about. Episode 1 hooked me enough to give it a second chance after the atrocity that is episode 2. No regrets since then. Index is a lot more poorly paced than Railgun, and I think starting as a book instead of a comic hurts it. Seems to me that the nature of comic construction helps keep the pacing more natural, which is really important when your adaptation starts moving in realtime. It also shifts the focus a more visual form of storytelling. I also don't much care for Touma and Index, so Railgun has that advantage too.
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    Clearly the SDP-1 Stampede Valkyrie.
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    The SD2SNES is fantastic, unless you're trying to play a game with an unsupported coprocessor(like Mario RPG'S SA-1 or Starfox's SuperFX). The developer is working to add more coprocessors, but it is slow going. The Super Everdrive isn't half-bad, but has less coprocessor support and no room on the FPGA to add them. But both are identical to a real cart when playing. The console doesn't care what the data comes from as long is it gets it.
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    A. Your Name wasn't exactly the most explode-y show, was it? What is Abrams here for? B. This is the rare occasion where "What Would Kuroko Do?" doesn't lead you criminally astray.
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