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    I thought he got it by launching a prison into low orbit.
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    Since when is Captain Harlock part of Robotech?
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    Gubaba is pretty much the best part of Mac7, and I don't come into this with the fiery atomic hate that some have for the show.
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    Aroooo.
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    Fiiiiiine. It's definitely part of a different continuity family than G1. Transformers fandom's already dealt with this "official = canon, even when directly contradictory" issue, so I'll just borrow their vocabulary.
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    That it isn't red. Other than that, nothing.
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    Who is that, anyways? I see a tribble, so I'm guessing it's from the Star Trek cartoon?
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    I was initially thinking Devil Gundam. Which, well, hits the same notes.
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    Gotta admit, I love the aesthetic on the Walkure Romanze stuff. Those swimwear outfits make no friggin' sense(even less than "normal" bikini armor!), but I really like how they look.
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    Six terran days, one plutonian day until New Horizons' closest approach to the most famous Kuiper Belt object. Encounter officially live RIGHT NOW. Pluto is no longer on the unexplored list! And on the list of names for geographical features for the moon Charon, under the classification of fictional vessels: Macross.
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    Here's a place that's perhaps appropriate for Macross to show up: On the moons of Pluto. NASA composed a list of names they want to use on the Pluto system's geographical features, put it to a public vote, and accepted write-in candidates as well. One of the categories for Charon is "fictional vessels", and the sixth entry on the list is Macross, with the note "Favored by 30% of the voters from eastern Asia." http://www.ourpluto.org/charon-theme-3 The name isn't applied to any specific geographical feature YET, but with New Horizons' closest approach in six days(And NASA beginning the official encounter today), images that show geography are starting to come in and it'll be on something soon.
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    YES! More Voltron/Robotech! The comedy train can't stop!
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    I ASSUMED it was a sequel. It sure does try hard to make it look like such.
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    I think that'd be the first time it worked.
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    But that's not Mac2, that's Mac2036. Which is an awesome game, don't get me wrong, but likely not canon. (Also, I believe, the only story ever told about Komillia Jenius after she learned to talk.)
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    Yeah, Skynet's trying to kill Kyle Reese while he's an orphan kid in the wastes, before he even joins the resistance(I'm pretty sure that Skynet NEVER knew who Kyle Reese was, nor did the Arnoldbot ever learn his identity, so it's a double-fault). And John Conner's not the leader of the resistance that's kicking down the enemy gates. He's done nothing to distinguish himself yet, and he's already at the top of Skynet's hitlist. Like I said, I probably would've enjoyed it if they hadn't kept trying to remind me "We're a Terminator film! Skynet wants John Conner dead! Something something time travel!" every ten minutes or so. There were some good scenes in it even if the writing was flat. Even a bit of actual thought at times. The terminator crawling out of the pile of molten metal made me smile, too. I enjoyed the "We won, whoops never mind" psyche-out, and the inversion of the famous T1000 foundry kill was a cute touch(and a subtle homage to prior films rather than a desperate plea for attention).
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    Honestly, Salvation's biggest problem is how hard it tried to remind me it WAS a Terminator movie at every turn. If Skynet had quit going on about Kyle Reese and John Conner, and they'd left out the tape journal, I could've had some dumb action fun. As it was, the movie refused to let me forget that it doesn't understand causality. Sarah's journal was full of things she had no way of knowing, and Skynet was looking for people that it shouldn't know existed. The movie writers seem to have been thinking "this crap all happened in the 1980s, and this is the future" and forgot this movie takes place BEFORE Skynet sends a terminator back. As far as Sarah's extended journal... I don't know. I just don't know. They apparently decided Sarah was from the future too?
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    Fair enough. It sounds like the movie is exactly what I expected. I will catch this at the dollar movies, maybe. Or maybe ignore it until a disk works it's way to me(that's how I finally wound up watching Salvation(I want those two hours of my life back)).
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    You have that completely backwards. In the original Terminator, the resistance had WON. Skynet's final defenses had fallen. The time-travel stunt was a last-ditch desperation gambit. Heck, the terminator didn't even know who it was supposed to be hunting, it was just killing everyone in California named Sarah Conner and hoping it got lucky. That's why humanity can send a soldier back in time to stop the assassination/bloodbath. They captured the time machine FROM Skynet. Terminator 2 works if you assume Skynet sent both terminators back at roughly the same time, just to different target times. The Arnoldbot was sent back to take out Sarah, and the mercurial prototype was sent back to take out John, both more or less firing blind. The resistance sends a human to stop the original terminator and a machine to stop the new prototype. The field-testing of a prototype in such an unusual situation is further demonstration of how desperate Skynet was.
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    Yaddayadda PC master race etc. Seriously, if you're working on a small budget, Windows is the best target. Relatively large market, the cost of development entry is much lower, and you aren't beholden to the whims of anyone else. Now, if THIS Kickstarter generates a shitton of money (as it almost certainly will), they'd be fools not to direct some of that to licensing fees and the "quality assurance" review process needed to get it on a console. Also, I'm pretty sure they have behind-the-scenes funding lined up, and that sponsor will most likely want PSXB porting regardless.
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    They're both wheeled vehicles. Remember seeing the Guntank and laughing? Yeah, this is two Guntanks going at it like they're hot stuff. Also, I like the US Guntank better, though I think they both look pretty rad.
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    Heh. Secret Agent Mylene will never stop being funny.
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    The VF-1R was not an error, it was a masterpiece of design engineering!
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    But... I draw my sustenance from the fragments of shattered dreams. A man's gotta eat somehow!
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    Man, people. Get a pen with a spy cam in it and just walk through the place with a pen stickin' out of your shirt. You know you want the street cred for those photos!
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