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    The preview episode? Yes. It is everything I hoped for.
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    Why? WHYYYYY?!?!Cyberpopo doesn't DESERVE a sequel.
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    Honestly, I thought the best Prime disconnect was the dinobot fight, when he's all "I am freeing you! So do what I say or I'll kill you!" I still maintain this is the best of the live-action movies, and that that is damning with faint praise.
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    LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, because Oracle was dicking around with the community. At this point, Apache owns OpenOffice, but they've had trouble drawing developers. And due to license oddities, code from OpenOffice can be used in LibreOffice, but the reverse is not true, so LibreOffice tends to be ahead of the curve.
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    I don't know, maybe because it's a blatantly obvious screwjob, a shameless cash grab, and symptomatic of an ever-more-prevalent attitude that it isn't FAIR that profits stop after people buy the game/system and there needs to be a mechanism to ensure a continued flow of money forever no matter how rapacious and shameful it is. I'm vaguely surprised they don't charge you a quarter every time you turn the system on, on top of the monthly service fee for a service they don't provide. The fundamental problem with your defense of the circumstance is... Microsoft and Sony aren't PROVIDING those servers. I would understand if they were, and in fact I defended XBox Live on the XBox because that was exactly what Microsoft was doing. But now both MS and Sony charge you to enable access to other people's service, not to provide a service themselves.
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    Oh, I know. Fortunately, Destiny is enough of a fiasco that this will not be as hard a loss as it might've. But I refuse to pay someone a monthly fee to LITERALLY do nothing. I do not lease, rent, or borrow my games, I OWN them and they are not a monthly service, the new cable bill.
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    Speaking of Taken King: I want the fancy collector's edition box. It looks awesome. But it's only available on PS4 and X1. I don't own a PS4 or X1. I would never play Destiny on one anyways, because I'm not paying someone a ransom just to turn on my ethernet port. This is an annoyance, but I get it. Whatever. PS3 4 LYFE Now then, on to my actual point... For SOME REASON, the "digital collector's edition" IS available for all platforms. For the same price as the fancy box full of things that cost actual money to manufacture, you get nothing but the game and a few gimmicky items. How does that make sense? It's demonstrably a lesser product, surely it should cost less. (I refrain from commenting on the name "digital collector's edition")
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    Pretty much, yeah. The most annoying thing of the story is there's little STUBS of story. They act like they're important, kick you out of the gameplay to watch cutscenes, but then it all goes nowhere.
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    Ummmmm.... Not to be a nitpicker, but I'm gonna be a nitpicker. Metric prefixes are case-sensitive, so mW and MW mean different things. mW is milliwatts, and two milliwatts isn't enough to light an LED. A laser pointer is 500 mW. Yes, it's a terrible standard.
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    One wonders what weapons locker they found THOSE in.
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    Well, yes. Why WOULDN'T you take advantage of an additional cooling mechanism if it was available and easy to implement? I mean, the very act of using the air as a propellant MAKES it a coolant. It's simply far easier to cool an engine in atmosphere than space, because you CAN dump heat into the air. It's very hard to get heat out of a spacecraft since there's nothing to conduct that heat into. So you have to radiate it out, but... radiant cooling still works in an atmosphere. So you cool better in air than out of it in most situations(the big exception being high-speed atmospheric drag). It's not a design oversight so much as a technical limitation. They opted to design a ship for maximum atmospheric performance and gimped space performance instead of gimping performance all-around just to keep the numbers pretty and even. That's a good question! And, I figure it depends on a lot of factors. The arm can probably handle the recoil if the destroid is meant for heavy labor, but aiming could be a bit iffy with no actual targeting software present. And there's the question of if the hand can actually actuate the trigger. The Spartan comes to mind immediately as a machine that clearly has hands but could equally clearly never use a gunpod. Assuming, of course, the gunpod isn't reliant on some sort of computer data link to operate. The presence of a physical trigger DOES suggest that any possible data linkage is optional, though.
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    They're robots in disguise. I mean it says so in the song. One should therefore expect a decent vehicle mode, but... often it doesn't show up.
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    But none of those mechs look like a Gundam and a Valkyrie had a baby!
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    Non-japanese designs, even!
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    Very nice. I like Chamber, weird proportions and all.
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    I think Gubaba was politely requesting I stop derailing this thread with walls o' text. Which is a justifiable complaint. ... I still wanna see an upgraded Stampede Valk.
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    Doh! Yeah, I dunno where I got 17 from.
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    The WHAT? That's just... oh my god, what were they thinking?
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    Sorry. My inner scientist got the better of me. Just be glad it wasn't my inner mad scientist, I suppose. Glad some folks appreciated it, though.
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    Aside from the lack of moving parts, yeah. Fusion is a lot simpler than fission, startup costs aside. I don't think ionization is a goal, but yes. And releasing directly from the reactor isn't a goal, because it would leech energy you need to sustain your fusion reaction. I believe Valks use the heat from the reactor to superheat liquid hydrogen. It actually IS more efficient in atmosphere. Which is why they go to the trouble of heating air instead of just using space mode all the time. Welllllllllll... the thing is that while hydrogen and helium both fuse VERY easily, helium is a very difficult atom to split. It'd be a net energy loss. Now, on the other hand, you COULD have a multi-stage fusion reaction. If you start with hydrogen, you fuse that to get helium, then you fuse helium to get something heavier. You could continue this until you reach iron, but you get successively smaller amounts of energy out(and when you fuse iron, you get less out than you put in). Stars are purely fusion. They start with hydrogen, as they age and "burn up" the hydrogen, they start fusing the helium byproducts of their hydrogen fusion. In the sun, this is our end game. Sol isn't large enough to fuse anything bigger. But in larger stars, that cycle of "burning" byproducts continues on through carbon, oxygen, neon, silicon, and magnesium, ballooning to ridiculous sizes as they do so. And then they try to fuse iron. Iron doesn't release enough energy to support the giant ball of gas they have become, and they collapse under their own weight very rapidly. The shockwave hits hard enough to ignite a round of fusion like you won't see anywhere else. And this sudden burst of energy makes the star explode in a supernova that releases a cloud of literally everything on the periodic table(all fusion byproducts), leaving a superdense neutron star or black hole behind as a mark of the unfathomably large cataclysm. Sustained fission reactions are (almost) all the results of human engineering, because the setup is fairly complex. Outside of one REALLY WEIRD geological formation in Ohio, all known deposits of fission isotopes in the wild undergo nothing more than natural decay. I am a total science nerd. I make no apologies.
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    As far as a hostage rescue Valk goes... just make sure it moves fast in battroid and GERWALK modes and carry the rescuee out in a trash can in your robohand. If you're feeling ambitious, a padded trash can like the zentradi used to install spies aboard enemy vessels. See, we don't need a second seat at all! No worries. Just doing my part to raise awareness of the differences between fission and fusion. Also, fusion doesn't really have chain reactions, controlled or otherwise. It's a lot harder to make a large atom split into two smaller atoms than it is two make two small atoms combine into a larger one. Fusion reactions take a lot of energy to start(enough so that every real-world fusion bomb ever made uses a fission bomb as the detonator), and don't want to continue. It's the biggest problem facing real-world attempts to build a fusion power generator. On the upside, it also makes fusion reactors much safer. The stars keep burning because they're utterly massive. With enough weight, anything will fuse. No fancy chain reactions required. A fusion reactor is far different than a fission one, even though they're both "nuclear power." Think of a fusion reactor as a jar full of REALLY HOT fire(and now all atomic physicists in the area are sobbing quietly). If you stop feeding fuel into the fire, it uses up all the available fuel and burns out fast.
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    Critical mass is a concept of great importance in fission reactions, but not one with meaning in the realm of fusion where Macross operates.
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    Who the hey is Gumpy, anyway?
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    I'm just surprised no one's favorite is Gubaba. Not even Gubaba's.
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    But SPOILER is still correct! Oh, we all wanted to punch Sentinel in his massive chin. We were supposed to, of course. But on the other hand, Sentinel never ordered a team of autobots be buried alive because they were stupid. So... eh, the jerk scale is a little variable.
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