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  1. JB0
    It's official: I suck as a Macross fan. Never noticed.
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    And that VF-11 pilot getting shot up and ejecting.
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    I should clearly rewatch Frontier. Usually, sci-fi embeds the document in something thicker than a sheet of paper, and I don't think I've ever seen one that was ragged and torn before.
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    But it's HUMAN technology. Of the near-future, even. Certainly, they've gotten a leg up on us stuck hear in the real world due to reverse-engineering of alien tech, but it should still be recognizably technology. And Walkure is surprisingly grounded in other respects. They aren't freely dancing through the air, even though gravity control IS a technology that exists in the setting. They're standing on forcefields, rocket-assisted jumps taking them from place to place. They don't carry forcefield generators and hologram projectors ON them, they rely on external devices that are recognizably technological in nature. If they don't try to explain the costumes, I'll be very disappointed. Unrelated: Did anyone else notice that the tattered Walkure audition flyier Freyja pulls out of her cloak isn't actually printed on paper? It's got animation, so it's some sort of active display device. I thought that was a pretty cool touch, and ALMOST doable now with OLED or e-ink(albeit not at anything near throwaway costs, nor that level of durability).
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    Hey, the GBA Robotech! Got the little SD Valk in there too? That's the only part of the game I kept when I sold it. Wish I still had my GameBoy and Intellivision boxes. Threw them all out in a fit of madness. ... Man, I have GOT to get all my games in one place some day for a photo op. Studio II through PS4. Maybe figure out how many duplicate VCS cartridges I have while I'm at it. I know it's a lot. I think I have FIVE copies of PacMan, which is at least four too many.
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    I did feel it was weird that their spacesuits and helmets apparently evaporated during the transformation. In honesty, that's the only part of the "magical girl" routine that really bothered me. I think it's gonna take some good technobabble to explain that away, and I want to see them try. My first thought was holographic overlay erasing the helmet/spacesuit's visible presence, but it is a justification with a lot of issues.
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    Pacify? She had the staff in the Macross shooting guns at Myung. Not WELL, mind you, but...I do concede it wasn't exactly the same. Just that the concept showed up there too.
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    I'd wager that the unlicensed transforming robots don't move anywhere near the volume TakaraTomy expects.
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    For the same reason they didn't use unmanned drones, be it AI or remote-piloted, in Frontier, even though the X-9 was the equal of the YF-19 and YF-21, only smaller and without a soft squishy center. Butts in seats is way cooler. I'd argue that gravity controllers likely still have the same flaw they had all the way back in SDF Macross. They only affect a very small area around them. A heavy object with high velocity changes will likely still see gravity controllers ripping loose just like they did all the way back in Booby Trap. The boomerang drones can get away with it because they have such low momentum(and if something goes wrong, no one cares if a battery pack and a holoprojector dies. Flesh&blood pilots get more consideration for hardware failure). Well, I know everyone is all "singing to make zentradi go fight? Sounds like Macross II", but my response was more "Didn't Sharon Apple do that?" And someone flying through a missile cloud will never NOT be cool.
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    Man, to heck with all this. I WANT to see HG sue Big West. And none of this "settle out of court, sealed outcome, sworn to secrecy" nonsense. I want this to go a real trial, with HG's original distribution contract entered as evidence in the public record. They claim they own the entire franchise outside Japan? Fine, they can prove it. Show EVERYONE the documents that say so. If it happens, and they actually produce a contract that says what they claim, I will publicly apologize for ever speaking ill of them. Hell, I'll go out and buy every copy of Shadow Chronicles still plugging the shelves at my local retail facilities. I'll even WATCH it. Once per disk! I may be watching Shadow Chroncles non-stop for WEEKS!
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    I'm assuming the fin funnel storage bay is where a missile palette would go on a normal combat mission fighter. Or possibly everyone has forcefield drones for defense, and Walkure just makes unconventional use of them. Either way makes sense.
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    Yeah. Wireless power! Tesla's dream still lives!
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    I'm gonna buck the trend and say something that will likely upset some peoplee. *deep breath* I thought the "magical girl" segment was actually REALLY FRIGGIN' AWESOME. I mean, not the obvious theme so much, but the technology on demonstration is utterly fascinating. While the podcast noted the boomerangs appeared to do whatever they wanted to, it looked to me like they only do TWO things. They project holograms, and they project forcefields. It's just that those two technologies happen to lend themselves to a lot of creative reapplication. And with micro-forcefield projectors being a thing, it seems safe to assume their glowing "auras" are a personal protective field(Maybe powered by song energy? Is Dr. Chiba getting royalties for this?). I'm not going to question the skirt rockets yet. I reserve the right to reconsider this at a future point, as it seems dangerous to any legs present in said skirts. Though I guess forcefield auras would mitigate that problem. So yeah, I really enjoyed the part with Walkure.
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    While I obviously did go in blind(no offense to you guys, pr'ly gonna grab the recording in a little while and listen to your son-err, thoughts), I didn't really think it was a mystery for the ages. I just thought it was funny as heck.
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    Regult-CHANs, even! Not lyin', I laughed at that. ... Almost as much as I laughed at the voice cast. Credits are rollin' along, we get to the voice cast, and suddenly THIS happens: So, ummm... yeah. That sure is a heckuva casting job there.
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    Yeah, preview version of the first episode. Apparently, it carries the episode number of 0.89.
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    That depends on how much of the problem is Sony's reflow oven being misconfigured and how much is just engineering flaws. I don't think anyone outside Sony Computer Entertainment's electrical engineering department can answer that. I really think a lot of the problem is likely endemic to the design. The PS3 and XBox 360 were some of the first high-performance machines designed to be RoHS-compliant, and no one had any real experience with leadless solder at that point in time. I suspect much of what people happily heap on MS and Sony as incompetent design, defective QA, and poor manufacturing is actually the result of Europe suddenly telling everyone they can't use the good solder anymore and everyone scrambling to figure out alternatives.
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    Yeah. Actual reflow ovens have a carefully constructed thermal profile, to ensure they get the solder hot enough to melt completely without heating everything else up enough to damage components, and to avoid thermal stresses from components heating up or cooling down too rapidly. Game machine repair "reflow" does none of this, really. Points for the heatgun, though. It's actually using temperatures adequate to completely melt the solder, and the controlled application of heat reduces the chance of damage in the absence of a proper rampup/rampdown phase.
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    It'd be a huge deal. Reballing a BGA part requires specialized equipment. Also, the oven trick is not ACTUALLY a proper reflow, and is only a short-term fix. If you have a reflow oven, that's one thing. But if you're just using your kitchen oven at PS350, that's somethin' else entirely.
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    I don't think any of us know. But he looked really young in Mac7 for a dude in his fifties. And if that's any indication, he's probably STILL still in the prime of life.
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    99% of the human race!
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    In fairness to Jedi... what WE perceive to be an opening may not be the actual case, given it's a fight between jedi. They have telepathy, telekinesis, and some degree of precognition. To the extent that one jedi with a sword is an effective force against multiple trained soldiers with guns. I would actually EXPECT those abilities to drastically alter a swordfight's appearance, though in the original movies it's only wildly obvious when Luke is leaping twenty feet through the air doing somersaults. In that context, I find the fight between ObiWan and Darth Vader on the Death Star interesting in how conventional it looks. Through the lens of the franchise, it has a very cautious feel to it, as though neither side is certain of the other's capabilities, but know better than to take their foe lightly. Darth's smack-talk aside, it looks like a fight neither party is sure they can win. Of course, out of continuity, what happened is Lucas felt lightsabers should have a mass effect to make them feel more like real swords, and then in Jedi he was like "nah, lightsabers are weightless now, let's go wild with the acrobatics", a weightless blade looks a lot different in action than a weighted one, and I'm reading way too much into this. But that line of thought is a lot less fun!
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    That uniform is really struggling to maintain structural integrity over those shoulders.
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    And the electronics in me is wondering how hard it would be to strip and repurpose the LCD panel in a television for a "smart glass" panel . Once you strip the enclosure and backlight, Black screen = opaque, white screen = transparent. Have to build a decent frame for it so it doesn't look like you have a busted TV tucked in the corner, of course. On-topic, I feel like that Yoko should have flames on the bunny suit, like her bikini top did.
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    It was semi-canon. Weird multi-tiered canonicity rules. Not that it matters. A fun story is a fun story, no matter how "real" it is. And no amount of legitimacy can save an awful one.
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