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    If you lose power, you're in big trouble anyways. I can't imagine a microfusion reactor fault being anything but bad news, even in an atmosphere. Best case, you ran through all your hydrogen, which it's implied is REALLY hard to do, so you've probably been flying continuously for DAYS. After that, it seems like there's a lot of problems that make landing an intellectual exercise on account of the plane is now made entirely of rapidly-expanding plasma. But the reaction thrusters are always in place and (mostly) pushing directly perpendicular instead of at an odd angle. It would've critically damaged the VF-1's LCF. (Look-Cool Factor)
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    Which raises the question: How fast does the barrier effect initialize? Could you leave the PPB under computer control in standby, and it could activate a barrier disk shortly before weapons-fire impacted the vehicle, then deactivate it again after the attack had dissipated? For that matter, how are the disks controlled on the canon barrier-equipped fighters? Are they automated, or do pilots just place them in places they'd really rather not get shot?
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    Good news for comet fans: The white whale failed to kill Philae, and the world's first armed space probe just phoned home to hook us up with some pics. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/06/14/philae_alive_and_well.html
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    Heck yeah, Ninja Golf! The 7800's killer app, if ever there was one. Someone totally needs to port that to something modern.
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    I'm still disappointed they didn't bríng the orange Gamecube over for the Metroid Prime bundles.
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    It's hardly OUR fault that the twenty-first century is nothing but disappointment and heartbreak. How's a man supposed to enjoy life when it's 2015 and he still doesn't have a flying car?
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    Good! So glad they didn't get bought out by someone comically inept.
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    And the pod race. Don't forget the pod race. Right. And James Cameron is Skynet's father, so an analysis of his recent career, relative to other famous directors, is totally on-topic.
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    Pretty much. I've never seen Avatar, but will take it on faith that it's a terrible movie with consensus like that. Phantom Menace was still the more DISAPPOINTING film, though.
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    A lil bit, yeah. I kinda suspect they're planning it, but not saying anything until they're sure it's feasible. Edit: Having pulled the stats up now... there's a pretty big RAM gulf between the 3DS and Vita. Really, even between the New 3DS and the Vita. That's a bit of a leap to overcome, especially since they're hacking Unreal Engine 4 instead of making a new engine from the ground up. If it happens, I expect it to be New 3DS only.
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    Not by the Kickstarter terms. I'd be surprised to see it happen, but it isn't impossible(by my reckoning, much of the Vita port effort is also applicable to the 3DS).
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    Also, Kickstarter backers get the ability to kill Igarashi in-game. True story.
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    Hey, Inafune tried to kill Zero off a couple of times in the X series. Capcom wouldl't ever let it stick.
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    This is news to me, and I find it highly pleasing news.
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    Personally, I think the show has two big problems. One is they're rushing it. The second arc has maintained a breakneck pace that sucks all the fun out of it as they try to get through plot points as fast as a(n almost) biweekly schedule allows. Also, they wrote (the best) three heroines out in three consecutive episodes, and then left them sitting in limbo forever. Like I want to watch a Sailor Moon episode that doesn't have Ami in it. The second is that budgetary. Toei COULD have said "This is Sailor Moon, we will spend the money to do it right because we are guaranteed to make it back with sales", but what they DID say is "This is Sailor Moon, we will do it as cheap as possible because we are guaranteed to sell it anyways", and it shows in every episode.
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    They did the same thing with Salvation, too. It was kind of amusing watching how carefully they framed the shots to hide the cyborg guy's cyborgosity so they could do a big reveal later, when they already threw it all over every piece of advertising they had. And hell, T3 was TITLED "Rise of the Machines". ... Is it still a spoiler if you name your movie after the big "surprise" plot twist?
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    I'm still watching Sailor Moon Crystal, and I don't rightly know why. The second arc has been a trainwreck of rushed incompetence. ... Oh, right. I'm watching it for the engrish. "Queen Neo Queen Serenity" is a thing they actually said out loud.
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    Avatar was the worst Smurfs adaptation ever.
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    I recall being just very confused. ... It was pretty as heck, though.
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    I'm American, I had to ask the internet what a Beeb is. That said, it looks like Acorn made a real computer instead of an overglorified doorstop.
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    And the hype train rolls on! Keanu Reeves is... Kamen Rider Akira!
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    Wait, seriously? That's amazing!
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    My way also has the advantage of acknowledging that MP3 Soundwave is a toy first, music player second. And that at that price he should bring quality to both sides. ... For user interface purposes, I'd also replace the cassette non-window with an OLED panel. Not necessarily a particularly huge one, just enough to be useful. Throw his Decepticon symbol up when not actively operating the player. Basically a Sansa Clip series, just with a CF interface instead of SD. For a non-electronics company, I do admit that the CF interface is a large obstacle. Takara was basically dependent on someone else's design already doing what they wanted. But getting a decent MP3 player with a display in there should've been doable, and it's appalling that they didn't. On a personal aesthetics note, I'd make his crotch buttons mirror the original Soundwave button layout. Silver plastic instead of chromed, because the silver won't wear off. Adds some visual interest to the design, as well as tickling my nostalgia bone. Always felt MP3 Soundwave was just too darn plain. And now I've spent entirely too much time speccing out my dream Soundwave toy that will never exist.
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    I will Sonic Boom your face if you don't take that back!
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    And here's what my dream Soundwave player would've done... I know this wasn't really workable for budgetary reasons(Takara doesn't make electronics, so they had to buy someone else's MP3 player), but I would've compromised functionality myself, not by using a crappy barely-functional chinese player chip, but by using larger and more expensive CompactFlash cards instead of the ubiquitous SD format(and definitely not the decidedly NON-ubiquitous MiniSD form factor).. The reason I'd do this is because CF cards are JUST big enough that he could come with non-functional "dummy" cards that both fit his chest cavity and actually transformed into the tape-bots. No crappy Frenzy&Rumble headphones here!
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