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  1. JB0
    Salvation COULD have been a good movie. I've heard it described as a good scifi film, but a terrible Terminator film. Which is true, but it never stops reminding you it IS a Terminator film, so it's hard to watch it as JUST a scifi film.
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    This. The original TV series remains my favorite piece of the franchise, though I've largely cast aside my Robotech nostalgia at this point. The biggest differences between Macross and Robotech come at the very end. The bridge crew all lives, and the Macross is restored and refurbished at some point after the final battle. More importantly, the "SDF-2"(known as the Megaroad in Macross) wasn't a battleship sent to negotiate a truce with the creators of the zentradi(who are, by all appearances, extinct). It was the first of many colony ships sent to spread humanity among the stars. This distinction has a major impact on the setting of Macross. Aside from Macross Zero, the sequels are set on colony ships or the alien worlds that humanity now calls home. Each installment of the franchise is, mostly, a standalone story. The references to previous shows are generally in the form of homages. A previous show's musical talent being played on the oldies station in a future show, or the hero of one show doing something the hero in another show did in an iconic scene. That sort of thing. But knowledge of the prior shows WILL increase your enjoyment of subsequent ones. Particularly in the case of Macross Frontier, which is absolutely saturated with homages, up to and including remaking an entire episode of one series with the new cast. The easiest way to explain the relationship between the TV series and the movie "Macross: Do You Remember, Love?" is that DYRL actually exists WITHIN the Macross universe. In consideration of that piece of trivia, I watch it as though it is the Macross version of a WW2 movie. Most of the stuff they show actually happened in SOME form, but significant liberties have been taken by the scriptwriters. Macross II is a sequel to DYRL here in the real world. It takes everything within the movie at face value. But it doesn't exist at all within the world of Macross. Because that would just be silly.
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    Particularly that last perspective shot. Always nice to see a toy looking like it's 1:1 scale.
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    It's not really a problem with modern trailers specifically. The trailer for Soylent Green had him shouting "soylent green is people!" to preview audiences, for example. It's just a problem with trailers.
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    The spoiler would be if it actually looked like a decent movie.
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    How is that a spoiler? It must be terrible to write a movie script and see your big twist thrown up on the trailers months before the movie airs.
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    I actually thought of that scene while typing. And... well, it becomes a question of if ALL thrusters are the equal of the VTOL ones, you know. I suppose if the missiles are using attitude thrusters, that's probably a good sign. Of course, the "emergency reverse" half-GERWALK mode is probably a good sign they were thinking of novel augmentations to fighter jet maneuverability when designing the VF-1, so... probably. Heck, GERWALK mode itself may have started as simply an extreme form of thrust vectoring before someone realized it made a pretty good assault hovercraft.
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    Ooooh, that WOULD be interesting. Notably different numbers for space and atmosphere, right off the bat. Heck, the fundamental concept of a turn in space is a bit different than in atmosphere. I mean, heck, just look at the differences from a real airplane. Can you use the Valk's attitude control thrusters in atmospheric flight? Is it a good idea? I'm imagining possibilities here, and they are as amazing as they are ridiculous.
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    No, that's totally on-topic given that's the Fox/Star Wars fanfare and not the Fox fanfare. Incidentally, much like them, the Fox Wars fanfare more or less replaced the Fox fanfare in my head. To the extent that I always feel like they cut the fanfare short in every other Fox movie.
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    Totally diggin' it. ALMOST enough to start trawling for trannies again.
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    Also, the Gunstar still looks awesome, and we need some merch so I can park one on my shelf.
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    Displeasing, but not unexpected. The original Lucasfilm fanfare was designed to segue in from the Fox fanfare as if they were a single piece of music. I accepted years ago there's just never going to be another release of MY Star Wars films, and the remastered LaserDisk release is the best version forever.
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    That... that sure is a thing.
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    And then you add energy reinforcement on top of that... I don't deny that an alien gunship capable of FTL travel crashing on Earth would cause such a radical shakeup in the state of the art, but it's mind-bogglingly crazy powerful stuff.
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    It's also got some interesting variations on the classic VF-1 transformation without getting particularly convoluted. ... I dunno about those canards, though. They look like they're there for the sake of being there.
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    Your soul was about to be sucked into super-dimensional space and replaced with an energy being that was going to try to conquer the galaxy?
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    That makes sense to me. Good for cooling the graphics adapter too, and that's one of the hardest things to cool in a modern system.
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    As I recall, they DID hack it up. The movie just did so poorly in pre-screening that they opted not to give it a full release.
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    Convection isn't actually a meaningful force on the scale and temperature of a computer. A single fan completely destroys any sort of convection flow. But the rear fan being right next to the CPU makes a big difference. It's also maintaining the ATX spec airflow pattern, which was bottom-front to top-back, with the power supply as the exhaust fan. It was also an airflow pattern that assumed all expansion cards are low-power devices. Modern graphics card evolution destroyed that assumption.
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    I suppose it should be noted that it isn't like SAL delays are because stuff is getting lost or anything. The very nature of SAL means they can't guarantee when a shipment goes out. It leaves whenever there's extra room in a shipment. This is documented up-front. So it's not that incompetence abounds, just that the core premise IS that shipping soeed is a gamble.
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    That's my recollection as well.
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    It's cheap.
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    Different era. No one expected these things to have value five years later, much less thirty-five. Like I said, they got greedy. They know they don't have a leg to stand on, but they're willing to shake people down for money anyways.
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    I don't recall the cursor being fidgety in Rebel Assault. But then, I was using a joystick with a rapid fire switch, so I didn't need a lot of precision.
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    I think there's a law that says all Macross AMVs have to be done to Danger Zone.
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