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    It's not JUST that!
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    And Missile Command was 1980, and is close to what the girls are "playing".
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    I love this thread right now. I just wanted to say that.
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    Yeah, show officially starts next month. With opening by Jam Project, because keck yeah.
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    For diamond force to launch from, obviously.
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    After due consideration, and rewatching the best episode of Macross ever, I've changed my mind. My favorite Macross mech is actually the Magic Bicycle.
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    Personally, they lost me when the trailers and previews came out and we had more to judge by then photos of the new title character(which had already concerned me, but I figured things were still salvagable). To my eye, one of the main things of the original WAS the way they treated Murphy as a machine, just parts for their project. The big clunky cyborg body was, to my eye, intentionally dehumanizing of the meaty core. And this movie did none of that, aesthetically, or story-wise. They preserve both the appearance of humanity and the man behind the visor. Were I to compare it to another nostalgia cashgrab, it strikes me as similar to Team Knight Rider, where they changed the basic premise from "one man can make a difference" to "one man can't be trusted with that much power." As I said at the time, this may've been an enjoyable movie, but it was no Robocop. And I'm sick of Hollywood doing random projects with old names because it'll get more ticket sales if they slap a beloved title on it. I will watch a remake that appears to be respectful of the original content. Possibly even a bad film that's actually pandering to nostalgia. But I have no time for a simple cash-grab wearing the cloak of nostalgia only so it can turn around and crap on the original. And once you discard the entire main character concept, you've lost any claim to being a remake. I would've watched it if it was Mechofficer or CyberPopo. But not as RoboCop.
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    YES!
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    I am excited! ... But I haven't been reading much lately. As soon as I find the time/urge, I'll read through this. I'm sure I will savor it.
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    Trufax: I initially thought the Sazabi thumbnail was the VF-19 Kai, and thought the entire sequence of posts had been setting us up.
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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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