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    Ship's computer was damaged in the crash and millenia offline(and the beast wars breaking out inside it). It had lost IFF capability. Pretty sure that's both Marvel and cartoon canon.
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    And Lucas did? The prequel trilogy was a big ball of continuity errors and retcons even just when considering the original movies. Start adding in all the extended universe stuff you're referencing and it almost seemed like it was actively TRYING to invalidate it all.
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    Actually, it doesn't. If someone slides their sword down the blade, they won't land on the guardblades, but on the emitters for the guardblades, which are high-energy devices and will likely explode spectacularly. I'd be a lot happier with the crosshilt if the guardblades had recessed emitters.
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    Y-Wings. Y settle for anything less?
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    Because armor is cheaper to design and manufacture than space fighters. Easy answer.
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    Yeah, 50Hz land had much more compatible stuff back in the day because who wanted to import from EUROPE? In seriousness, the conversion issues were pretty much a one-way street. 50 Hz regions imported 60 Hz content, but the reverse was rarely true. So no one was really making 60 Hz TVs that also worked with 50 Hz content. But, like I said, that took actual WORK to do back in the CRT days. Now it's easier to do it than it is to not do it. US BluRays are indistinguishable from japanese BluRays, from a format perspective. Same region code, same TV standards. DVDs were the same except for region code, despite US NTSC and J NTSC actually being slightly different formats. (The black levels were slightly different, but it was only relevant at the analog level, so it didn't affect disk format at all.) (Yes, I know too much about analog TV formats for someone who is not a broadcast engineer.) Dear Hasbro: Shut up and take my money already, geez! -JB0 PS: Can you get me Transformers: Animated on BR while you're at it?
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    My understanding is that the big obstacle was color encoding back in the day. Since the specials on-disk aren't actually stored AS NTSC or PAL, but as MPEG-2(50 or 60Hz, interlaced or progressive), and the player is responsible for the final output format... it comes down to whether the TV can accept 50 Hz input. This was low odds on CRT, but is trivial on a modern display. I THINK the TV should accept it, especially as many of them already accept 24 Hz content natively. And I THINK that if it doesn't the BluRay player should automatically start frame-rate conversion. Again, in part because it does for 24 Hz content. Aaaaaaand now that I think to do an actual search, the internet says(with surprisingly little digging, I thought this was gonna be hard)it MIGHT be a problem, depending on the specific player and TV. http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=95245 is a list of US players that can handle 50 Hz content, and whether they resample to 60 Hz or output at 50(in which case your TV needs to handle 50 Hz, and I don't see a good list of those). ... ... ... For Primus' sake, people! It's the twenty-first century, this should not be that hard! I KNOW these companies are all global businesses selling the SAME SLAGGIN' HARDWARE in multiple regions, so why not just put the SAME SLAGGIN' FIRMWARE on all of them(sans region code and "does 'color' have a 'u'" settings) and let the people that care about imports be pleasantly surprised by their newfound multisync compatibility?!?! I THOUGHT this idiocy was coming to an end when we all moved to DTV and BluRay had three region codes instead of eight, but apparently manufacturers STILL can't get their cranial units out of their exhaust ports! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *deep breath* Okay, I'm done. ... It's still a stupid situation that shouldn't exist. Oh hey, Baron Von Joy looks a lot better as a car than I expected him too.
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    It's not an unsound argument, really. They all have a lot in common. Classifying dinosaur species and genus is far less clear than classifying living animal species and genus, since, you know... it's all bones, and not even complete sets usually. I do not envy the folks that have to figure out how a critter looked from a dozen bones, much less who it's cousins were.
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    Macross 7 Plus +: Basara learns the art of dance and Fire Bomber gets some choreography
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    For a while, they were the same genus. Deinonychus was split back out later. Apparently, the book made reference to the merger. I'm not clear if they were split back after the book was written, or if Crichton had dated reference material(You'd think after 65 million years it didn't matter if you were off by one or two, right?). I'm willing to give them a pass on that either way, though I DO wish deinonychus had made it in as himself, particularly as it's such an IMPORTANT species. That actually came up in the first book. Their lead geneticist proposed tweaking the DNA to make dinosaur 2.0: The dinosaurs people EXPECTED rather than the ones that actually were. Hammond was furious because they HAD real dinosaurs, you can't IMPROVE on perfection. Didn't appreciate counterarguments that they weren't real dinosaurs since they'd been gene-spliced to hell and back already.
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    Actually, PAL and NTSC are no longer relevant at all. I THINK modern hardware handles 50/60 Hz seamlessly, but won't swear to it as I haven't had occasion to test. Not a damn clue. But I want an answer to that question as well.
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    Without the epilogue, it's ambiguous, but the epilogue makes it explicit. Funny story, that. Spielberg upscaled the velociraptors beyond any then-extant species so they'd be intimidating. The utahraptor was discovered while the film was in post-production, and through some insane coincidence almost perfectly matched the scale of Spielberg's raptors. And while the movie didn't really make it obvious, Utahraptor in life would have had a similar mass to a friggin' polar bear. Though utahraptor is not, and never has been, a member of the velociraptor genus The velociraptors in the film were likely modelled after the deinonychus, which was classified as a member of the velociraptor genus at the time Jurassic Park was written, and velociraptor antirrhopus appears to be the actual species of 'raptor that Crichton was thinking of. But deinonychus antirrhopus' head was only at about chest level on an adult human, so still too small. It would be a fitting choice, though. Deinonychus was one of the major discoveries that made people question the long-held image of dinosaurs as slow, plodding, clumsy beasts, thereby paving the way for stories like Jurassic Park. Incidentally, when I saw the movie as a kid, I was all "That's a deinonychus claw! What the heck is a velociraptor, anyways?" My, how times change.
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    Epilogue of the first book. The Costa Rican government is blocking his burial. Apparently some crazy shiznit happened on an island they leased to some wealthy american, they're VERY upset about it all. Last time I had this discussion with someone, it turned out they had the "Jurassic World" anthology, and for SOME REASON said anthology omitted the original book's epilogue.
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    "But this time we'll do it RIGHT!"
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    I could never get over zombie Malcom. The first book is pretty unambiguous. He's dead in the end, they are trying to get the government to let them bury his body. Then the second book rolls around and he gets better somehow.
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    I don't understand you guys saying the movie is a guilty pleasure. That's one of the greatest works of cinematography ever.
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    Yeah, the missing pterodactyl cage was my biggest letdown with the first movie and I was glad to see they rectified it somehow. The third movie was pretty much just a collection of every dinosaur scene from the previous two books that hadn't made it to the screen. Which is not an unenjoyable premise, but... it lacked a soul. The first movie will always be my favorite.
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    Mmmmm... it's not necessarily a bad idea, but it raises the mass. So you need more reaction mass for the same flight. I'd pr'ly mix it up a bit. Augment those launchers with a thrust-only FAST pack variant. Actually, the launcher/booster combo of the "stock" FAST packs seems to be a pretty sound mix, now that I think about it.
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    You're probably thinking of The Idolmaster. There's no shame in that. ... Well, okay, there's actually a good deal of shame in that.
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    Guilty Crown is great right up until the moment it isn't. By the end I was pissed off more than anything else.
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    Hey, it accurately sums up my understanding of how relativity works.
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    Because magic. I stand by this statement.
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    Just plain gold? Not iridium-plated, or gold-pressed latinum? LAME.
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    Orguss' flight mode honestly almost looks like something out of R-Type. If only the cockpit were longer.
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    I choose to believe this is not a wrong-thread post, because dinosaurs with armor means Jurassic World is basically DinoRiders: The Movie.
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