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  1. JB0
    Oh no! Harmony Gold is gonna sue Big West for trademark theft now!
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    Oh, that's only because you've seen so many bad remakes that you no longer have any faith in their ability to do a good one. That's got nothing to do with age.
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    Salvation's biggest problem was a writer that wasn't thinking four-dimensionally. There's HUGE leaps of logic because the writer just assumed all events from each movie happened in the year said movie was released. So Sarah Conner knows all about everything in the future, because that future happened in the 80s. And Skynet knows who John Conner is, because the dude's been foiling the machine's plans since the 80s. Terminator 3 gets points from me for remembering the entire thing is built on a causality paradox, and that this is not a story with a happy ending. . Everything has to happen, because it DID happen. As stupid as it was, it was trying to reconcile the first and second movies and create a world where they both made sense(it only partially succeeds, but a complete victory is impossible where those two are concerned). I still prefer to think of Terminator and The Terminator as different universes. The sequels do such an amazingly bad job at following up on the original, including the much-loved Judgement Day(which, as fun as it is, takes a huge runny crap all over the first movie), that it is better to assume they're sequels to a movie we never saw. Genisys could've been the movie we never saw, and that is the saddest thing about how big a trainwreck it apparently turned out to be(I still haven't seen it). It can't happen. John Conner only exists because of a causality paradox. Hell, he brainwashed his dad into gettin' it on with his mom to ensure his existence. The original movie is all KINDS of creepy. But the first film is also a very well-edited time-travel story. Everything locks together and creates a cohesive causality paradox, and there's none of the occasional shifting of the rules so common in time travel films. The past cannot be changed, and if the past contains time travellers from the future it is only because they were always there.
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    Bruticus! Give the Goldion Hammer back to Gaogaigar! Your courage isn't strong enough to handle that!
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    That sounds amazing! I just meant that only being available if you don't transform doesn't really negate it being equippable. I readily admit that dual gunpod was not an official equipment package for the VF-25.
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    Kinda like a VF-1 being equipped with the GBP as long as it stays in battroid?
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    Well... funny thing about the sun's radiation... we get LESS of it on Earth than we would in stellar space. The Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere do a really good job of sending most of that radiation somewhere other than our faces. And it turns out radiation shielding is hard, and most of the things that do a good job(like lead and water) are also really heavy, which is why only a small part of the ISS has enough radiation shielding to safely ride out a solar flare inside it. That said... overtechnology seems to have provided humanity with lightweight and durable radiation-opaque materials. At least, one would hope so, given the big honkin' glass domes they put on their colony ships. If those aren't unusually good radiation blockers for visually-transparent materials, colony life is not very healthy.
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    But after he picked it up, he WAS equipped with it!
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    If I 'm not mistaken... it's a little of column A, little of column B. For the most part, their hardware isn't exactly the most survivable of designs, so it is easy to die if you are one of the grunts on the front lines. Even an ace like Milia lived one piece of shrapnel away from death. And there's very little data on long-term miclonizing, because why would anyone do that?
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    And why not? It is the last good version of Windows! True story: I'd be running 2K on something or other right now if I had a dang clue what we did with the CD and license key.
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    Spoilers: You don't have to stop using an OS because the manufacturer says it is dead.
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    I have found that of no concern whatsoever. Why would overtechnology not have any effect on medical care or cosmetics?
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    Okay, I can honestly say something nice about this thing now. That last set of posters is awesome, I love that they are taking the opportunity to do some scale-establishing shots. It is hard to really get people in the "giant robot is huge" mindset, and I think showing the people standing on their robots is a good way of doing it. Especially the way the robot juts into the poster, with most of it too big to fit in the frame.
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    I thought it was the hoary froating head. Which may also fit...
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    To save everyone the clicking, that studio is Technosoft, best known as the developer of the Thunder Force series.
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    Maybe the Cat's Eye is an early design, and the nuclear engines of the period needed some sort of augmentation for atmospheric propulsion? Or there may have been undesirable EM interference between the era's high-performance reactors and the Cat's Eye's sensor suite? I dunno, I'm just throwin' ideas out.
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    Roy's playboy ways were genetic? Was he descended from Hugh Hefner?
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    Well played, good sir.
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    I think we're all still speculating on if the father is THAT Focker or not. That said, if the father is Roy, and the mother is not Claudia, it doesn't matter who his mom is because we never met the girl.
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    Not sure what you guys are on about. Her ribbons are fine. Only thing off about her is the size of those bunny ears.
  21. JB0
    Pokemutants: Gotta catch 'em all.
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    Oh, geez, the Tamaki merch train is STILL running?
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    This IS the (legally-distinct descendant of a) company that was known for licensing shows they had no intention of releasing, just to keep other companies from getting them. Sad to see the tradition survives. Like I said: You guys deserve better than this.
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    As I like to say... Terminator 2 has plot holes big enough to drive a truck through, but no one cares because they DO drive that truck through. And then the truck blows up. And then they do it again a half-hour later.
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    That would be the best Megatron if they hadn't forgotten the scope and shoulder stock.
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