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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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    At least 2k monies.But man, if that was mine, it'd be my regular Super Nintendo. People'd come over, be all "the hell is that?!" and Id just be "a Nintendo. Wanna play Mario Kart?"
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    I just remember there were a lot of problems if you view it critically. And MAN, I don't wanna watch it again to index them.
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    As I've said before, it's a movie with plot holes big enough to drive a truck through. But no one cares because they DO drive a truck through them, then blow the truck up, then do it again a half hour later. I've made my peace with T2, but while a fun movie, it is a TERRIBLE sequel to a work that polished every minor to make sure it all fit together perfectly.
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    There is that. Gotta say, whoever got the bright idea to make a fifty-foot chameleon velociraptor was NOT thinking things through. Also: Needs more T. Rex.
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    Well, I've seen it too. It's better than I expected, but really suffers from a lack of focus. Several major plot threads scattered about unrelated to each other, and it feels like parts were left hanging.
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    I didn't, really. Especially that close after his death(I believe I called it "a crass and shameless cash grab"). But it was presented as a documentary, and the people that went likely believed it was.
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    Woz read the script. They asked him to come on as a consultant AFTER writing the script, which tells you how seriously they took historical accuracy. Actually, they asked a few of the early Apple guys to sign on as consultants... all after writing the script. It was a big fat load of hero-worshipping crap with almost no basis in reality, by the accounts of men who were there.
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    Basically Masterpiecing Classics Perceptor, then?
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    Well, that's an... odd... cross-license. Read the comic books. Bam, you're done. Also, that link doesn't work for me.
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    The first of the Bayformers movies?
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    Neo-ADV? I'm sorry. You guys all deserve better.
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    Oh no, not DIO! I think it might be safe to say it's pretty darn hot.
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    Basara as a Symphogear user... The gods themselves would know fear.
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    Pr'ly a big ball o' tinfoil or random assemblage of wires and hydraulics. Those seem to be the trends right now.
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    Wasn't Kawamori involved in AKB0048 anyways? This makes more sense than I'm comfortable with.
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    Was Hikaru in Transformers?
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    HG still has the Macross trademark. And whether they have a legal leg to stand on or not, the threat of them filing a lawsuit is well-known and makes the odds of someone licensing any Macross until such time as HG is put down like a rabid dog very unlikely.
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    I have a theory. What if the pointy thing in the new series logo is actually a stylized A? I figure it's the ensignia of one of those "covert" Valkyrie squadrons that they keep claiming exist that we never see. Angel Team, or Alpha Team, something like that. For narrative interest, it's a disgraced team. A mission went wrong, someone had to take the blame, and they were railroaded by the higher-ups, sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. The first episode, we see them breaking out of a military prison, stealing some Valks, and escaping. The rest of the series has them folding from colony to colony, one step ahead of the authorities, working to clear their name while doing random acts of goodness as mercenaries to make ends meet. Macross A-Team: Coming soon to a television near you.
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    I'd rather they cared enough to fix major bugs before they shipped, especially given both the industry's willingness to take a crap on it's customer base and my personal concerns as a bit of a game historian. I mean, sure, Batman was in a decent enough shape after the launch day patch(except on Windows!), but how many months did it take Ubisoft to get that one Assassin's Creed game into a playable state? My collection's 100% digital, and always has been. But it's spread over several media formats, and I prefer getting my digital data on a disk or embedded in silicon over downloading it from a transient server. Really, that's my biggest problem, the ephemeral nature of it all, and the aggressive way the game industry has moved to make it moreso every year. Not that I don't get cheesed off when I throw a game in and have twenty minutes of install delays and update downloads to wait through before I can get to the process of actually playing it, but that is secondary to the fact that the game is temporary and disposable by design. We live in a world where I can still play Phantasy Star any time I want, but I can't play Phantasy Star Online no matter how badly I want. After Burner will be in circulation decades to come, After Burner Climax can never be played by anyone that hasn't already bought it, and possibly not even by them in the future.
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    I actually remembered the book used a different vehicle for the tour car than the movie. A rare case of me omitting a detail for the sake of simplicity. I'd think that'd be a hard sell, really. Why would they keep the useless engine around after completely reworking the vehicle? It's off-track and running on batteries now?
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    And rural areas where broadband isn't available. Keith, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. The issue is not that it takes so long to download the patches. The issue is that they shipped a game that needs three gigs of updates on day one. The gold standard for shipping should not be "the game boots well enough to download the patches from the internet", it should be "the game exhibits no major flaws."
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    I think the Explorers were converted to run on electric power from the tour track. I know they were in the book. Not that this really helps the matter at all, but...
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    VF-191, then?
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    MP Metroplex or gtfo. In scale.
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