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    I liked the Tracks toy... until his hip fractured and his left leg came off irreperably.
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    Honey, I gave billions to open a dinosaur theme park to the only company to ever let someone get ate by dinosaurs.
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    Hell yes! Had a crapton of GoBots as a kid. I'd love to see them get more love than "we named our Mirage repaint Crasher"
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    He really shouldn't treat Broadside that way.
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    Or possibly incredibly old. Star Raiders did it back in 1979.
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    That's pretty damn epic.
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    Lesbian Bear Storm is such a ridiculous title. Waitin' for that one to finish up before I start in on it, though. Ikuhara's brand of crazy leaves me with a need to marathon.
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    Huh. It feels shorter than that. Probably some combination of XP lasting so long and everyone getting hyped about Win10 well in advance of release. The saddest part about ME is... if compatibility layers had been ready at launch, Windows 2000 would've been the first NT targetted at home users. If nothing else, MS learned a valuable lesson about being backwards-compatible with old drivers. ME introduced a new driver standard. While ME could USE them, they were were far from optimal. Much of ME's legendary stability problems were down to companies offering 98 drivers and claiming they were ME drivers.
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    Stampede doesn't even JUST feel like a Gundamized Valk. It's one of the superweapon Gundams with artillery bristling from every rivet. You could drop it into SEED or Wing and it would only look out of place because when it transforms it looks like SOMETHING, and not just a random assortment of robot kibble.
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    But in reality you will never see either set in the wild and will have to pay eBay scalper prices regardless. On a less cynical note... I did that with Primus and a Micromaster. Turned out the old Micromasters are exactly the right size to sit in the palm of his hand, and the police car one I dug out looked just about perfect while doing so. Hip and knee joins in the right place so his feet dangle off the edge like he's sitting on a park bench.
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    Which is an extensio of the Windows 8 upgrade for cheap at launch(I believe it was thirty bucks). The exact same thing that happens when you install service pack 1 on 7. The point releases are service packs. It's just that 8.1 is a prettier and more intuitive name than 7 SP1. The impression I got was not "we are launching Windows versions fast and furious" but rather "when we have a cool new feature ready, it goes up on Windows Update immediately instead of being held back until we have enough cool new features for a service pack to go out" The same thing as now. You buy a copy of Windows. If you mean "if I reinstall after that first year" then MS has already made it clear that the free upgrade license is a normal license in all regards. It does not expire. The PROMOTION is good for one year, not the LICENSE. Which does not mean you have to INSTALL Windows 7 or 8 first. Upgrade licenses can do a clean install, but they will ask for proof you have the older version before installing. I assume it works the same as everything post-98. Service packs are free, major releases cost. Of course, "major releases cost" hasn't exactly been true lately. In the same way that Windows XP was a service, sure. That's why Win10 is coming out so fast, and so different. They burned a lot of bridges with 8. They have a limited amount of time to prove they can still do a traditional PC OS right before people jump ship to Apple or, god forbid, Google. And MS knows that. A universal app doesn't present and behave identically on all the platforms it runs on.
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    I love the game Valks. The Stampede especially. IT's my favorite non-anime Valk, just for how out of character it is. It's like Wing VF-0.
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    Is that the one with the vampire Lion Voltron that sucks energy from the Vehicle Voltron by biting it's neck? Because I don't know who did that one, just that it is a thing I saw at Half-Price Books once, and it left me very confused.
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    Personally, I'm partial to this one...
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    I hope that VR goggles aim to a higher quality standard than 8-channel headphones do... Headaches, unfortunately, is likely going to continue to be a problem with VR goggles, and any other (realistically deployable) 3D display technology, for the forseeable future. Our brain really doesn't like it when our eyes look at one distance and see ALL the distances. It's strange and weird and it upsets the natural order. And thus we get headaches and, paradoxically, eye strain. While the effect can be reduced, the only way to eliminate it completely is to have a display with ACTUAL depth instead of two flat displays(or a neural interface, but... yeah).
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    A Piece of the Action: The Motion Picture.What, Trek comedy automatically has to involve tribbles?
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    So THAT'S why Arpeggio's Kongo drank so much tea! I thought it was an odd quirk to assign such a standoffish and "mechanical" character, but as a historical homage, it makes sense.
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    As if we needed more proof that Goofy is a terrifying monster.
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    Same original author, too. It's pretty darn fun.
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    I'm sad this was not an ongoing series. It's hilarious.
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    Yeah, they've been working on powersuits for as long as they've been able to dream of them. Turns out it's a lot harder than it looks.
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    That second pic looks REALLY fanmiliar for some reason, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Is it a Gundam homage of some sort?
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    I think I love Death Parade. I wasn't sure if Death Billiards needed a sequel, but so far, I really like what they're doing.That said, the opening weirds me out. The dissonance between it and the rest of the show is just so strong.
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    Similar, yes. And some games continued to use fancy mode 7 scenes very late into it's life, including, coincidentally, the Super Star Wars trilogy. But as-presented, it's impossible. Which is frustrating because it wouldn't take MUCH of a change to make it work. Which was why I spent more time than I care to admit breaking the scene down from a Super Nintendo capabilities perspective to figure out how to MAKE it work. And why it frustrated me. True. But that doesn't mean I can't expect them to try anyways! Neither Chrono Trigger nor PS4 used a coprocessor, actually. Both of them are running on just the internal system resources. (Actually, the only Genesis cartridge with a coprocessor was Virtua Racing. It was a big deal at the time.) And yeah, coprocessors would help, but... that's cheating. Yoshi's Island is a great example of what the Super Nintendo could do with a SuperFX strapped in, but... WAY too much color depth available for this to be a reasonable SNES product. But now that I think about expansions and coprocessors... SegaCD could be a viable platform. It's got a math coprocessor to help with scaling and rotation that would help a lot on the Falcon sequence. In fact, most SCD boot demos(the exact show changed with model and region) have it scaling and rotating two large objects simultaneously, which as it happens is EXACTLY what we would need to do. Replace the SegaCD logo with sand dunes and the SEGA logo with a Millenium Falcon, and BAM. And that's really the only place in the sequence where I'm worried about the Genesis' capabilities. As a bonus, it also gets us the audio via the power of redbook! 32x rises back into the "too capable" territory. It could do it, but you'd have always be left wondering WHY. Without a compelling argument to the contrary, I'm going to call it a SegaCD movie trailer.
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    I'm sorry, but the very first frame exceeds the C64's color capabilities, and it's all downhill from there. Most of the colors used in the trailer simply don't exist in the C64's single 16-color palette. And I'm pretty sure the neXt-Wing scene would cause a C64 to spontaneously combust if you tried it, to say nothing of the Falcon. There's simply no way it can be done on a C64. MAYBE an Atari 8-bit computer. Atari had really good color depth, though it'd need reworking. But I'm certain that several of the effects seen are beyond the reach of that poor overburdened 6502 without a more feature-rich VDP than the ANTIC/GTIA combo. Equally serious issues with the neXt-Wing and Falcon. Lesser challenges, which are likely surmountable, but still stick out at me, include 1. the parallax scrolling behind soccerbot and jetbike. The jetbike is only problematic because it has to be part of the BG layer, it exceeds sprite capabilities for both platforms. That's why it can't be a sprite over a single BG like it seems. 2. the Stormtrooper shot, all of it, but especially the first and last parts. That loading ramp descent is WAY harder than it looks. 3. the trees in the lightsaber scene. They can be assembled from sprites, and indeed have to be, but both platforms will have issues with the scene as drawn due to sprite limitations. Even ignoring the Falcon spin and available colors, both systems wind up being greatly hindered by having only a single background layer to work with. They need far more processor time than is available to render those effects in software. A crapton of RAM would help in some places, so the Atari XEs fare better than the original A8 and XL machines, but... it's not enough. These issues are also why I'm not considering an MSX2, despite it's delicious color capabilities. And while it COULD easily be done on an Amiga, it SHOULDN'T be. I don't know a huge amount about the Amiga, but I know it had FAR better color and resolution than that. It should look far better than that if it was targeted at Amiga. If one did this on an Amiga, it would be for the same reason they did it on a modern IBM-compatible. Which is to say it would be an attempt to create dated-looking CG without actually considering any of the hardware restrictions that would make it believable. And that's what bugs me about this sort of thing. It doesn't take a lot of effort to make it at least LOOK right, and no one ever expends it. Considered color selection and no parallax gets you most of the way. I'm still tending towards Genesis as the most likely sweet spot between inadequate and too capable, though the Falcon scene is still all kinds of problematic. And yes, I'm still thinking too hard about this.
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