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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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    I was actually wondering that in Jurassic World. Mostly the aerial attack sequence. Both where they stashed that infinite outpouring of creatures in the finitely-sized aviary and why the pterodactyls and dimorphodons hadn't long since killed each other off.
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    So you're saying it's still pretty good, then?
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    Ah, I didn't realize I hadn't watched the theatrical cut. The implication I got was the T1000 didn't work right in the heat of the foundry, for what it's worth. But it didn't need a perfect appearance to call John in Sarah's voice, and I'd give it a pass anyways since they DO demonstrate he's malfunctioning were it not for the fact that the bot DOES turn into Sarah five minutes later and call John in her voice. After letting her get away in spite of her being a termination target. Basically, his machine logic took a flying leap because they didn't want to kill Sarah and they wrote her into a corner.
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    I never understood why it had to touch something either, but that was how it was explained, and it's how the movie illustrates it. My way gives a good reason for the touch. The 1000 gets a detailed survey of the surfaces it's imitating, not just appearance, but also texture, pliability, and warmth. It gives it a way to gather the information needed to make a duplicate that will pass as the real thing. That it's also friggin' terrifying is a bonus.
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    Ya know, I was thinking (while listening to the original Jurassic Park soundtrack), and in many ways the Jurassic World film parallels the Jurassic World park. Both of them are living in the shadow of their predecessor, urged on to ever-larger shenanigans in an attempt to be relevant twenty years after something amazing was done. Certainly, the SCALE of the problem is different, but... The characters in the film say just having dinosaurs isn't enough anymore, and that's equally true for the scriptwriters in the real world. Jurassic Park struck such a strong chord in large part because it showed us dinosaurs as we'd only dreamed them before. Not stop-motion puppets, men in rubber suits with exposed zippers, or upsized iguanas, but as fluidly-moving creatures with a sense of scale and mass, interacting directly with real live humans in all their insufferably tantalizing verisimilitude. I think most of us felt a little like Dr. Grant in that first scene with the brachiosaurus. But it's darn near impossible to recapture that magic and unleash it at will. Thus you get things like Jurassic Park 3's spinosaurus and Jurassic World's Indominus Rex, upping the spectacle for a world that just isn't impressed by a T. Rex running through the forest anymore. I do not envy anyone the task of following that up, and while the challenge is not the ONLY reason they've largely failed at that follow-up, it hasn't exactly helped matters.
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    It's a prototype of a different system, namespace collision aside. Also, I don't think PS1 games have a name encoded for display, given that's not a function available on the PS1. You'd most likely get a "this is for the wrong system" error, since the disk is a CD-ROM, but not an SNES CD game. Incidentally, this prototype was also intended to take "SuperDisk" cassettes, which contained the CD in a caddy with an IC mounted for game saves and production control. Not naked CDs. (Though as with many CD players of the era, an audio disk or foreign system disk could be loaded into a caddy for playback, as evidenced by the CD player controls on top of the system).
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    It's a fundamentally different platform than the PS1. I can basically guarantee it's incompatible.
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    Actually, I was skipping continuity on my last viewing, taking T2 as it's own thing instead of a sequel to The Terminator. T2 doesn't claim time travel only works on organic tissue, so it gets a pass on that. (I know the canon excuse is that time machines work on organic tissue, anything encased in organic tissue, and "polymimetic alloys", but it's an ugly retcon and I prefer to just pretend time machines work on machines.) Though on the subject of busting out of organic tissues... that was something I would've done in the movie sort of, but for very different reasons. While not really a plot hole per se, it doesn't make logical sense that a robot can perfectly copy the appearance of a human being from a single boot print. What I would have done is have the security guard step on the T1000, the 'bot turns from tile to liquid metal... then slides up and "cocoons" the cop for a full-body scan. When done, right before taking the final form, there's a convulsion inward as it smashes the victim into an unidentifiable mass of assorted meats and bone fragments to prevent leaving an identifiable body behind to blow cover. Instead of a corpse in the janitor closet, there's just a bunch of hamburger and fake blood splashed around. Also has the production advantage of putting some horror into a horror movie sequel. The most glaring issue I recall is in the foundry, when the mercury bot is torturing Sarah to get her to call out so he can kill John when he comes to save her. Then lets her go to chase Arnold. Then turns into her and calls John himself, leading to the "two Sarahs" scene. That's problematic on all fronts. He should've killed her immediately, since once he touched her, he could imitate her and call John himself. Failing that, slashed her as he left to chase Arnold. The whole thing is one big "huh?" moment. That said, I did like the way he had trouble maintaining his form in the heat, and how they initially introduced it(and, though it shouldn't have happened, how it paid off in the Two Sarahs scene). It also goes some way towards explaining why the T1000 was still at the prototype stage(non-functionality in human-livable environments). The foundry scene wouldn't take a lot of reworking to make sense.
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