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    Indeed. I was taking the opportunity to make a mild joke about the 1911's rather lengthy service life, not saying anyone in Aliens actually carried it. It is the gun no one can kill.
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    Honestly, the lethality argument seems dubious to me. If they can damage a "modern" VF, they can turn any unwitting pedestrians to a fine red mist easily enough. Or pilots, with a good hit to the cockpit area. (RIP, Messer. ) And if they can't damage a modern VF, why are they even carrying them in the first place? We saw the Drakken guns opening craters eight feet wide in the ground, and even if the Siegfried is only making six-foot craters, it is still making craters bigger than people. It is just one of those things, where the damage they need to do is high enough that it is impossible to make them "safe".
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    Mac+ money doesn't go to HG. I think HG is still bitter about it, but pbbbbbbbbbbbth to them. (I thought the US Mac+ release was out of print, so any money would've already changed hands. Am I wrong?)
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    Very interesting. Very interesting indeed. The references I found seem to count lifetime rounds fired through a gun, rather than ammo remaining in the magazine. I suppose you can assume every magazine inserted carries X rounds and just reset the counter to X on ever mag insert. That is easy enough, I suppose, but smacks of cheating. Regardless! Very interesting tech that I had no idea existed!
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    Yeah, it would definitely be better if they had a "star" gun, like Aliens. On the one hand, firearms are a mature technology, not typically prone to radical change. On the other, they ARE prone to gradual evolution as well as the aesthetic whims of the day, and DO look different from era to era(ignoring the Colt 1911, which by all appearances will still be in common use in 2211). Also, things like the ammo indicator in the pulse rifle make sense for a futuregun where such a feature is close to free, and it'd be nice to see that kind of forward thinking.
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    While your point is well-taken, Aliens ALSO featured several unmodified or lightly-modified real guns in addition to the pulse rifle.
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    Man, all yall with sand under your bridges and ivy overgrowths. I just recently upgraded from a friggin' YORKFIELD. Finally put the socket 775 board out to pasture. In fairness, I DID grab a cheap Q9300 at some point, so I was in the upper end of what it could do. But even the lowest of the low outruns that 9300 now. ... Actually, that isn't true. The lowest of the low is the EQUAL of that 9300.
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    Our frothing desire for this toy increases! The leg latch is actually pretty clever, now that I've had a good look at it. Simple, but secure.
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    Makes sense to me. Simple version: The square-cube law is math(geometry, specifically). If you have an object and scale it up, the interior volume of that object increases much faster than the exterior "skin"(specifically, the skin increases with the square of the size, while the insides increase with the cube of the size, hence the law's name). Thus, you can't just make a small thing bigger without changing it, because it gets heavier faster than it gets bigger. With the same materials and techniques, the supporting skeleton takes up an increasing proportion of your space as the object gets bigger. Thus, there are limits to how big you can get with a given set of materials and skills. Super-simple version: Bigger things weigh more, and they get heavy faster than they get big. Bonus tangent: The square-cube law is ALSO why the zentradi are super-unrealistic. They are just too big to be humanoid. Their heart would be unable to move blood to their head, and their legs would collapse under the weight of their bodies. Elephants and giraffes have a lot of specialized anatomy to make their hugeness work. But if a zentradi's biology was different enough from a human's to allow them to survive at that size, it would ALSO be too different to allow them to interbreed with humans. Note that Klan provides a partial excuse to this issue, as she demonstrates clearly that zentradi biology IS quite different when micloned than when full-size. But it is difficult to imagine organic structures that could sustain a thirty-foot humanoid, much less ones that would also be genetically compatible with humans. Biology doesn't readily benefit from overtechnology in the same way that mechanical engineering does. You can't just make a creature grow bones out of hypercarbon and call it a day.
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    Very nice!
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    Seems like Clan Ripley is becoming such.
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    The crash of the ASS-1 didn't just leap electronics and fusion powerplants and rocket engines forward. There are also overtechnology MATERIALS, like hypercarbon(which is not carbon). By all appearances, these overmaterials are both stronger and lighter than anything we have, driving the weight of everything down while at the same time making it all far tougher.
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    Quintess-Os... genius!
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    The lion-head attack(I forget what they called it) thing is nice!
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    My thoughts on the trailer were just that it can't decide if it is a sequel to Prometheus or a remake of Alien. Neither of which is a thing I particularly want to see.
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    Yeah, atrocity is a good way to describe the Revenge of the Fallen Arcee. I think that was really the low point for Bayformers design. So many that turned from vehicles to... assemblages of parts that don't really look like much of anything.
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    If it wasn't meant to be a beret, it is close enough for my headcanon. If I'm wrong, I don't want to be right.
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    I have to ask: You're thinking of the one from the first toyline with the beret and the wheels that hang over her shoulders, right? Just making sure we're on the same page, since they did give her a much higher profile redesign(if we can call the TF2 version a design) I admit, the beret amused me more than it should. It is just such an ODD anthropomorphic touch to see a Transformer with a hat. And I seem to be a sucker for robots with crossbows.
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    No lie there. Doing her close to screen-accurate without some partswapping is a serious pain in the exhaust pipe. Animated Arcee was fun as heck. Mine is currently threatening to knife Animated Waspinator in the face. Largely because a transformation joint gave him an "ab crunch" and after I accidentally got him in a "pelvic thrust" pose, I thought it was too hilarious to change. Really, he deserves to get shanked. Really, most of the Animated toys were fun as heck. Which is a LOT different from what I expected when the first promo pics came out. I also liked the Arcee toy from the first Bayformers line. Again, motorcycle and very little to do with the original aside from being female, but it was a fun mold. Very frustrated when they put her in the second movie and her robot mode kinda crapped the bed. 'S like "we spent the effort to design a good Arcee in this aesthetic already, so let's throw it away and start over!"
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    She turns into half a car, with a robo-butt hanging out the rear. There's not really a nice way to put it.
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    They seriously named their company "Lechery"? ... At least they are honest?
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    Wasn't DuelGundam an adamant defender of the entire series? My stance is simple: I'm here first and foremost for the robot-on-robot action. The first movie completely failed to deliver that. A. They are citing actual Texas law created explicitly to protect that kind of relationship from prosecution. (Which surprised me. I still can't figure out how that clause made it through a state legislature that is notably prudish and "tough on crime".) B. Bizarrely, while jumping through those hoops to legalize the relationship with real law, they missed a much simpler clause in the same section of Texas law: the age of consent in Texas is 17, which is exactly how old she is. She could legally sleep with anyone she pleased, and there was no need for any special exemption. C. As I said last time it came up, let protoforms be protoforms. Teens gonna boink.
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    Not Transformers-related, really, but that's also alleged to be why Sega stopped selling After Burner Climax, their jet licenses were expiring. Super Hornet, Strike Eagle, and Super Tomcat. Trademark in the modern world extends a lot farther than it did in the 80s, in all markets.
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    That sounds really uncomfortable. *runs for cover* Compatibility issues aside, that is awesome and more converting robot toys should have gun grips that actually look like gun grips. ... Ah well, at least we're past the days of G1 Prime, where his rifle had a pistol grip... in front of the peg that went into his fist.
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    See, I think the first one was abysmal drek, and each successive movie is incrementally better. Age of Extinction was the first one I wanted to see again, and dangerously close to being a good movie.
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