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    They built a -19 for a homeless rock star before the special forces got a shot at them. <noncanon musings> Which I guess means it's possible the special forces guys only got it because Basara had already demonstrated the thing had a significant real-world advantage over their current rides. I kind of like the idea of Basara getting a -19 to "beta-test" it for the rest of the fleet. Making sure the Sound Force project is useful even if Dr. Chiba's sound energy theory had turned out to be just the ravings of a mad man. </noncanon musings> And then they built a pair of -22s for their fleet commander and mayor because why not? Clearly the military and civilian leaders of your entire gig should be on the front lines where they can more effectively oversee operations. (And it was awesome and I love them for it.)
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    Kakizaki. Someone's gotta root for the underdog.
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    That's not true! That's impossible! Everyone knows the UPS guy doesn't talk to anyone. Just throws the box on the porch and runs.
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    I knew I should've doublechecked which mold Bumblejumper was instead of just shooting from the hip.
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    Bumblejumper, isn't it?
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    I dunno, looks more like a VF-4 to me.
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    What's this about trials and tribble-ations?
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    Sarcasm is just one more free service we offer.
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    I want to be cremated with my collection. Can't take it with me? FEH! I'll show you all!
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    "I bought you lunch 17 times!"Guld fired a few.
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    The ultimate answer to all future animation errors?
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    The history of the Virtual Boy, sans rumors, speculation, and lies. A tale of lost capabilities, hardware crippled by early decisions, rushed software development, and a bit of yellow journalism as icing on the cake. Most amazingly... the system has no Super Mario game. For years, people have wondered why Nintendo thought Mario Clash and Mario Tennis were acceptable for the showcase game. Bafflingly, Nintendo actually told Yokoi to NOT make a "real" Super Mario game, since it would compete with Super Mario 64. But eh, we got Wario Land out of it, so I'd say we won in the end if more than twelve people had ever played it. Seriously, Nintendo, why isn't this game ported to/emulated on the 3DS yet?
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    That's awesome, and you know it. I am SHOCKED! Utterly FLABBERGASTED! Toys for kids... what IS the world coming to?
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    Hopefully nothing comes to pass. Konami is not so much inept as actively malicious, and I think they've seen the same loss of talent recently that Capcom saw back after they shuttered Clover Studio(albeit in a lower-profile trickle instead of a single mass exodus).
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    The one that breaks is obviously actually the rare MP Motormaster. Also, MP-01 has a light to make the Matrix in his chest glow. If that isn't reason enough to prefer it, I don't know what is.
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    I'm doing that right now too. Introducing a friend to the show and taking the opportunity to rewatch it along the way, a few episodes a week. We just made it through the gang's escape from zentradi capture the other night.
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    If I recall, the original Macross' cannon is such a device.
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    *laughs* Well-played, sir. Well-played.
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    Or hook two widescreen displays up end-to-end. That actually gets you very close to the original arcade aspect ratio(and is, coincidentally, what Taito did for the Darius Burst arcade cab, despite Burst NOT being a port of the originals). But in all seriousness, I think a modern widescreen set would do Darius II's two-screen version nicely. There's still a bit of letterboxing, but it's a far less absurd amount than the 3-screen. More like the scale you got watching 16:9 content on a 4:3 display. The active image is still a reasonable size, the gaping maw of the frame isn't offensive, etc. And sure, it's the cab for WUSSES instead of REAL MEN, but it's not like Darius II wasn't designed to be playable on two screens in the first place.
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    And your TV even has enough horizontal resolution to display Darius properly these days. Still gonna have letterboxing, though.
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    So after he left 7 fleet, Basara turned into a space bug? I'm confused now.
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    Also, sometimes realism gives way to looks-right-ism, and stick play is one of those things that, even if I knew better, I'd illustrate incorrectly for aesthetics. It's similar to how rocket launches in every movie ever have engine ignition at 0 on the countdown. 0 is supposed to be liftoff, not engine start, but it looks so much better if the engines fire at 0 that even when going for accuracy, they'll fudge that part.
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    I see one cutie, where's the other? <shipping war 2015>
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    Okay, I do grant it will be the awesomest chainsaw-wielding guntank ever built IRL.
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