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  1. JB0
    They should just make his canon name "Turbo-revvin' Young Punk".
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    That is actually really clever. Gets around MOST of the geometry issues presented by using a single square for a map, at a fraction of the cost of creating truly spherical maps.
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    Basically, DC and Marvel have a long-running feud that boils down to whatever one does, the other will do the opposite just to prove they are different and thus better. And Marvel has made it their mission to make fun movies about all their characters. Consequently, it is DC's mission to make unfun movies about all their characters, to prove they're better.
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    You're right, and it is really frustrating. Mirage has the potential to be a really interesting character, but she's being used as window dressing. I was really looking forward to the follow-up on that five-second scene about how the burden of her lineage weighs on her, but it has NEVER happened. Meanwhile, Mikumo gun steal Hayate when no one be watchin'.
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    Mirage seriously needs to ask her grandmother for some dating tips. A few good dogfights and a knife fight later, and he will be putty in her hands.
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    Sweet. I really don't know why I love six-changers so much, but I do. I love them to hexadeath.
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    "... there’s probably been no moment in time where someone has unironically wanted to watch Wild Wild West at home ..." I... actually enjoyed the movie. It was another for the "so bad it's good" pile.
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    Actually, we know the seventh of the New Macross-class is called the Macross 7. And the fifth was Macross-5... Actually, it seems all the New Macross class are "Macross-Number"... and the first New Macross is the Macross-1. Never mind then. I still feel just Macross is as ambiguous as just Enterprise, but I shall continue to wing it.
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    Definitely not official, since the TV series explicitly states in Daedalus Attack and Global Report that the Macross's* barrier systems were built by humans, using the energy that appeared in the engine room after the fold accident. (Which makes it the first human use of what we now know as fold energy, and the episode carried the implication that the phenomenon was largely unknown at the time.) The zentradi were also unfamiliar with barrier systems, and they had no small degree of experience with the supervision army's capabilities. The implication in SDF is that it was a completely new technology... and then Delta happened. It actually kind of bothers me that the protoculture vessels apparently have barriers, though it isn't near as egregious a retcon as fold faults were(yes, I'm still hung up on that one). *Should it be the Macross-1 nowadays? There's too many vessels with Macross in their name for "just Macross" to be really clear. 'S as bad as the Enterprise. SDF-1 Macross feels clumsy, and just SDF-1 tastes like Robotech to me.
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    BEHOLD MY PSYCHIC POWERS!
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    See? That's what I'm talking about! Nuanced details that had to be dropped for a 90s FPS!
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    I am still not sure if I was being sarcastic or not about "showstoppers", honestly. But I think it is fortunate the flaws were confined to the wheels. If it'd taken re-working of the main robot instead of a single "accessory", they likely would've released as-is. (I say single because the two wheels share a common design, so any modification to one hits the other automatically)
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    A. great comic. B. I searched it up, and le wikiz sez: "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. It has been called "Niven's Law" and attributed to Larry Niven by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case, and the earliest occurrence yet located is in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society." It sure SOUNDS like a Pratchett quote, but apparently can't be connected to him.
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    Wheels didn't spin, weren't rubber. Showstopper flaws right there.
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    Oh, good. I haven't had a chance to sit down with my copy yet, but I was kinda worried. Glad to know it came through all right.
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    Her panties, obviously.
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    I tend towards screen-accuracy, in general. My logic is that the model was designed to be photographed, not viewed with the naked eye, and what the camera sees is how it was intended to look. In this case specifically, the deflector grid is documented as intended to be invisible on film. I sort of feel that citing its presence on the studio model is akin to colorizing a B&W movie and saying that is how it is supposed to look because you used the paint colors of the original set as references. It misses a very important point somewhere. But! I can certainly see the appeal of the grid. It livens up a design which, once you get past the nostalgia, is kind of dull with so little detail. I would probably do the deflector grid, were I building one, for that reason alone. A model should be more about personal preference than a perfectly true-to-life representation of a vessel that never existed in life(which is why I'd skip it and just build the movie version instead! The refit version is so sexy!). And given that CBS still kicks the argument back and forth internally, who are we to judge? Apparently, the mirror universe episodes of Enterprise were supposed to feature a 60s-accurate smooth Defiant, but the renderer took it upon themselves to tech it up in defiance* of instructions and there was no time for a do-over. *No pun intended. Honest.
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    Honestly, I assumed the game was a dramatized version of events, and the actual theft involved something less than going toe-to-toe with seven thousand and three stormtroopers. But I liked Katarn, and I wasn't alone given how he kept turning up in other things.
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    I don't understand why the drill isn't chromed.
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    Many bothans died correcting this information. We used to know that mercenary Kyle Katarn shot up an entire base in the process of securing those plans. But he isn't real anymore.
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    It is possible the pieces of jewelry were wildly expensive. It is also possible they weren't industrially useful pieces of fold quartz. Too small, too impure, too defect-laden... in any of those cases, they would be effectively garbage. Now, whether the government approved the distribution of junk stones or not... that is another story. I get the impression that Sheryl's are from before the full utility of fold quartz was realized. Hayate, though... I reckon there's a story behind that necklace, and we'll hear it before the show is over. It also seems like these small pieces might be getting reappraised in light of "current events". Hayate's shown repeatedly that these small fragments can have a powerful effect on a living being, and they seem like they might've been especially useful when Walkure was starting out.
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    What you're saying is... bring back Kyle Katarn? I am onboard with this message.
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    Yup. It's more-or-less the same thing as hyperspace or subspace or insert-name-here. The age-old solution for the universal speed limit: if you don't like the rules, then find a new roof. (Also works for teenage rebellion.) It isn't even a particularly interesting variant of hyperspace, since it apparently just messes with the universal constants for the most part. I've seen a setting or two where the actual geometry of space was different, so route planning became very important. I thought that was a neat wrinkle on the concept. On the other hand, the presence of fold energy becomes an interesting wrinkle itself. Especially when you manage to tick the other universe's natives off while stealing their stuff(Seven Did it!™!). I was thinking about that too, actually. It would be an interesting additional layer.
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    You are right, my internal editor corrected your quote without me noticing. Terry Pratchett, maybe? It is a very Discworld thing to do.
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    That is the breakdown as I read it, too. Aside from the obvious (off-road vehicle with a shield projector), It is something daft that is fun to say, as all the best Transformer names are. The only thing that could make it better is if Trailbreaker/blazer/whatever Hasbro calls him this week had a longstanding rivalry with Skywarp, where he could mirror the name pattern of his rival.
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