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  1. JB0
    What's weird about thinking of a vector arcade game as retro? Naw, retro is a state of mind.
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    Techno girls are better than either. And since Mikumo is TOTALLY AN ANDROID, that means Delta wins.
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    Indeed. The same pre-established magic that keeps pilots from turning into red paste on the canopy when they pull a ridiculous 20G turn.
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    Which looked like a by-the-book standard cliche magical girl show in the first episode. Also, I take issue with the insistence that Walkure is magical and the shield drones are mind-controlled "god drones". The drones are shown to be FAR from omnipotent(they can project holograms and force fields in the immediate vicinity of the drone body for a limited amount of time), and by all appearances are gesture-controlled. As for Walkure... they have bug bulbous mechanical devices around their waists(the likely source for the thrusters seen firing from their skirts), and holographic costuming has been a thing since DYRL. I see them doing very little that can't be explained with established overtechnology. They are FAR less ridiculous than, say, thirty-foot tall humanoid creatures or fighter jets that turn into giant robots. Thank GOD Macross takes itself seriously and never got mixed up with THOSE absurd cliches. I know! If only they'd thought to equip the Valks with some sort of limited barrier as a kind of pin-point defensive system! How could they miss that? Seriously, all I see in the drones is a pin-point barrier, a holographic projector, and a gravity controller. All of this is technology that's existed since SDF Macross. WHERE is the new setting-defying capabilities you claim they have?
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    Fold inertia wave canceller thingamadads.
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    Well, Blurr was a targetmaster... And Powermaster Prime came very close to being a headmaster. A headmaster and a powermaster. And a triple-changer. The headmaster robot would also be a triple-changer, with head, robot, and Roller modes. Making him a Powerheadmaster double-triple-changer, I guess. He was perhaps a tad excessive. In any case, they seem to have forgotten to put his head back on his body when they pulled him back down to Earth, so he's STILL got a snap-on head, it just doesn't transform into anything. A head-apprentice, if you will.
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    We could've drafted a vehicle development history and a short story involving it's operation.
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    I think it's about making everyone a *Master, so they can assemble some sort of Master force.
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    They just be chillin' with they cartoons, that's all. Cain't play with toys ALL day. (Though perhaps showing the cartoon on the TV may've been a good idea. )
  10. JB0
    It just wouldn't be Voltron if they didn't.
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    There may be heavy resistance to any sort of "forced" micloning among large portions of the zentradi populace. They are historically proud of their stature, and there have been historical attempts to limit their size to human-scale. Telling them they can fight, but only if they wanna submit to micloning might be deeply offensive to them. Besides, regults are easy to make. One assumes they remain so even after augmentation to raise their standard of survivability and ease of operation. And, well, millenia of tradition don't die easily. They may fight to protect culture instead of destroy it now, but "if these weapons were good enough for my genetic line's first generation, then by Minmay, they're good enough for me!"
  12. JB0
    At least we still have a swede with a fake accent! (Please say we still have a swede with a fake accent.)
  13. JB0
    Nice. I hope they bring the second card over too. ... I wonder if this means that parting the games out individually as downloadable titles didn't do very well... (This is mildly annoying, because I bought the best of those games individually back when it was first up for download)
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    Gravitational waves produced by the merger of two black holes, incidentally. The process converted three solar masses of matter into energy. That's a LOT of energy to hit spacetime all at once..
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    I... probably should've known that one. It sounds really familiar to me. ... I wanna live in HG Wells, Mars.
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    So are errors in official translations, sadly. Seen way too many of those done by someone who doesn't care, or has someone above determined to crap the work up.
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    I've seen two separate fansubs of the episode. One is from people who appeared quite familiar with the franchise, but were having a lot of fun with their subs. The other is from people who were trying to be more "straight", but honestly I was pretty sure they had no familiarity with Macross whatsoever. Just as a side note. I found neither translation to be what I would consider trustworthy.
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    Okay, that makes sense. ... Is Mars inhabited in the "present-day" Macross universe? Or did they decide finding other habitable planets made terraforming too much of a pain?
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    It's an express train to comedy, at least for me. (What can I say? Some people just want to watch the world burn.) City 7 was not under-defended. They were faced with an exceptional fighting force. And generally speaking, you DO assign the bulk of your defenses to keeping the enemy OUT of civilian population centers. I don't see you cursing the crew of the SDF-1 Macross for having inadequate defenses to repel Kamjin and Millia's incursions into the city. The VF-27 and VF-171 aren't the same tech level. And the Drakens were clearly superior to the -171s. Who was recalled from the front lines? The VF-31s were a limited special force, and they were engaged with a force that had attacked Walkure, who they were charged with defending. The -171s were not redeployed. Again, you're wrong. It's more the case that if you have a motorboat, why would you take a canoe? They had a Valk that was optimized for aquatic combat, so why use one that wasn't? Yes, if you have a surprise attack, you're more likely to hit someone. That doesn't mean we need transforming tanks, or in any way affect the strengths and weaknesses of the missile cloud.
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    My impression with the attack on the Mars base staff was that they believed them to be an attack force, and the quiet reconnaissance label they'd assigned to the base was just a cover story. Which, to be fair, makes sense. The most likely target for reconnaissance was on Earth, and if you wanted to assemble a large strike force without intervention from the Anti-UN, you'd do it somewhere they couldn't reach... like Mars. I'm not entirely sure what purpose the martian outpost was actually supposed to serve.
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    It's probably also notable that the SDF Macross wasn't carrying it's intended armament. If I recall, much of it's defensive weaponry was supposed to come from the ARMDs that it failed to dock with in the first episode, so the surplus of destroids were pressed into service as, effectively, MAKESHIFT defensive weaponry. That said, the ship was plenty big enough to support them. Everyone wants the Aliens Power Loader.
  22. JB0
    After the crossover comic, how could it not be?
  23. JB0
    They could make Sven's death trip to the hospital planet have some meaning. Instead of getting wailed on and dropped, he could get captured and turned into a robeast. ... Oooh, he could get brainwashed and replace Yurak partway through. That'd add some melodrama, and a great recurring plot thread, while being completely in character for the franchise.
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    I hope it isn't. I don't want to wait fifty-one years and two months.
  25. JB0
    OMG SPOILERS! (As if anyone on Earth didn't see that one coming)
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