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    I was going to blame the technical limitations that saw a lot of other things watered down in the port from MSX to NES, but it seems like they simply replaced the image of Metal Gear with that of a supercomputer. The actual fight is almost identical. My assumption is that they decided if make the titular mech couldn't be more than simple window dressing, it was better to not include it at all and avoid getting anyone's hopes up. Because you don't FIGHT the Metal Gear in the MSX version. You plant bombs on an unmanned and inactive Metal Gear until it blows up. And somehow, blowing Metal Gear up activates the base's self-destruct sequence. There's at least a degree of logic to the base's computer activating the self-destruct when it explodes(though it really shouldn't take near as many bombs to do). Obviously, they were WRONG, and people wanted to at least SEE the robot they were sent to destroy. But... there's a logic there. Now, of course, Snake's Revenge is a totally different GAME to Metal Gear 2. But they did preserve the presence of a Metal Gear in it! (Sorta. Kinda. Almost. Maybe.)
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    There's no u in froot.
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    Antimatter reaction bombs are later. At Zero's point in the timeline, they're fusion weapons.
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    Shockwave remains so sexy, I still really hope a version in OG toy colors comes out. I really like the new gunbarrel assembly. The sort of flower-blossoming articulation is cool as heck. Ah, so it's an homage to the prototype then? In seriousness, of all the issues that Powermaster Prime had, the big super head that did nothing bugged me more than all the lack of articulation or fists sticking out of the trailer did.
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    It's awesome and manly, but I think his TV series death carries more weight. In fairness, Kakizaki's barely a PERSON in DYRL. In both cases, though, he bites it through no fault of his own. Just wrong place, wrong time. That's DEFINITELY a nice touch. I think they actually reclaimed the reguld that Hikaru, Max, Misa, and Kakizaki stole to escape from the zentradi fleet. It's the only reason I can think of for there to be a reguld parked in the Macross, though that raises the question of how they gained access to it..
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    Any sufficiently high velocity will do it, actually. Black holes are just a really good place to get a really high velocity(provided you don't care about minor details like surviving the experience). Speed on the freeway, you'll live longer. Maybe five seconds total, but longer is longer!
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    Excellent point. I was thinking too much about the base costs and not the human element.
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    Lost Two Years is still on my reading list. I just haven't sat down to do any proper reading in a while.
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    I'm still surprised they haven't tried to remake Titanic yet.
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    Naw, it wasn't the show's word choice. They don't say what it is that I noticed. We were talking about Misa's cleaning and I called it an apartment, then immediately corrected to house as his residence(though small) was an independent, freestanding building. I suppose it's even entirely possible it's just really luxurious barracks. Like I said, there's no shortage of freely-available land in the area. You could make the barracks about as sprawling as you wanted. I just... can't really figure out a scenario where rental properties make sense when there's so much land available. And construction costs should be depressed from a surplus of zentradi laborers. I can't imagine a scenario where a large zentradi DOESN'T make construction cheaper.
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    Got to the end of the world in my rewatch. Zentradi bombardment starts and there's several scenes of the world getting wrecked, including one of a flower shop and a little girl getting vaporized. Having seen that scene a bajillion times in the years since Robotech first aired when I was a wee laddie, I'm more or less unfazed by it. One of the folks I'm watching it with is not particularly familiar with the show, and exclaimed "God DAMN!" when it happened. He was apparently expecting a more sanitized armageddon, as one tends to in these things. Not explicit examples of actual people being wiped from existence. It's good to have a fresh pair of eyes to remind me about some of the things I take for granted. Like exactly how dark that is if you haven't seen it on and off pretty regularly ever since you were old enough to talk. I'm also reminded I really like the post-war arc for the way it shorts out "they all lived happily ever after" and showcases the problems zentradi have integrating into human society. We're only two episodes into it, so we've not yet gotten to the part where Minmay attempts to destroy Hikaru's life. But I've typed a good wall of text about THAT in the past, so it doesn't bear repeating. We DID contemplate the cost of real estate in the post-apocalypse while watching Misa clean Hikaru's house, though(due to an accidental use of the word "apartment"). Figured it ought to be cheap since there's no shortage of available land. While traditional construction resources are in short supply, there's more metal than anyone could want just laying around and the Macross seems able to fabricate a good facsimile of more-conventional materials given how many times they rebuilt Macross City inside the ship. And thus, homeownership should be easily attainable and there's no reason for apartments to exist.
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    Time to get the multimonitor setups rigged again.t I don't care if this Darius game isn't designed for it! It isn't Darius without a ludicrously long display!
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    Not even a zipper there. It's like, the one part of the outfit that ISN'T a zipper, and it'd be a justifiable aesthetic feature there.
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    I did avoid getting too far into the abuse of open-source thing, since it's tangental to the core issues. The GPD kinda reminds me of the Pandora, just without a keyboard and with significantly less-dated hardware. (I'm hoping the successor, Pyra, is far less of a fiasco than the Pandora turned out to be. Because the Pandora was awesome, until everything went wrong. )
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    In fairness, the heroes can't hit anything with a stormtrooper rifle either. I'm buying into the old "bad batch of rifles issued shortly before the movies" excuse.
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    I know it's adorable. And doesn't require original cartridges like the Retron 5 does(Hell, it's smaller than some original cartridges). And a lot less locked-down, so there's the potential to run better emulators than the Retron uses, or at least emus that don't crap all over the open-source license. They're both Android boxes, but one actually lets you use it to it's full capacity. Basically, what I'm saying is the Retron 5 is not very good, and Hyperkin is a bunch of crapheads.
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    Me too.
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    Han and Leia got divorced after she accidentally bleached them.
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    Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I did. Though the fold space/real space time desync was almost certainly originally conceived as a different mechanism than relativistic time dilation(and in our brave new post-Frontier world, it's DEFINITELY completely unrelated). Relativistic time dilation isn't really relevant to Macross because people just don't go that fast in their universe. You have to have a ludicrously high velocity before the differences become notable. There's simply no reason to build up that much steam when you have access to faster-than-light travel.
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    Actually, it WAS logical in the original series. We know, IRL, that the passage of time in our universe is intimately related to the speed of light. It stands to reason that a parallel universe with a different speed of light(but physics close enough to our own to be compatible with our life and machinery) would ALSO have a different rate of time flow. It makes good sense, and shows up in a lot of "hard" science fiction because of it. It's also implied in-show that the variance in time flow is regular and proportional. That is, that an hour in fold space equals a larger, but trivially-calculated, amount of time in realspace. Which is what you would expect from a universe with a different rate of time. And then Frontier crapped it all up with a big convoluted retcon about faults, quartzes, speed bumps, and hyperspace bypass ramps. I will never forgive them for that pile of nonsense.
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    Also worse. The SSSB is schrodinger's fastener right now. It is both great and terrible until observed.
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    I can't swear to it, but it doesn't sound right to me. The legs don't attach at the front of the nose cone, so the overall height should be similar to other variants. If the cockpit affects overall dimensions, it'd push in a different direction, and make the battroid, ummm... "well-hung."
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    It really is. And I like the sort-of implied message there that Han's blaster is his "lightsaber." There are many similar devices, but none identical to it. It's a tool that is uniquely his, and he is capable of performing extraordinary feats with it. (Feats like routing a squad of storm troopers on their home turf with nothing but a good yell and run. ). I am of two minds about that. On the one hand, it strongly emphasizes the staff's apparent junkyard status. It gives it an inherently low-tech feel to the thing, makes it look more like a repurposed piece of machinery than a purpose-built weapon. And I'm pretty sure that's why it's in our faces like that. On the other hand: REALLY? The PHILIPS is the standard fastener in Star Wars? WHY?!?!?
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    BOMBA! I kinda hope so. Basara is a fun character when he isn't trying to carry the whole show. On the other hand, he's also kinda famous. His natural propensity for stealing the spotlight would be amplified a thousandfold. It'd be hard to work out a scenario where he could justifiably show up and NOT become the center of attention for an extended period.
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    Saner than the midnight showings we're getting in the US. At least, I assume that's when it starts.
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