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  1. JB0
    So you're saying Targetmasters are now built to the same engineering standards as Leader-class toys? What a world we live in.
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    Because daishogun Durifuto-san is chou very sugoi! He deserved better! Or something. Naw, the big stuff's already been beaten to death. This is just the most blatant of the small stuff. Like Grimlock having horns, only less awesome.
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    Nope. Not me. It seems an obvious complaint, though. I mean, I know Japan doesn't make a lot of cars, but there must be SOMETHING thematically appropriate for him.
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    Just saying Rin won't be starring as of next episode, but this entire season is all about Archer regardless of who the official star is, and Archer is always awesome. It's one of the rules of the Grail War: The Archer servant must be the coolest.
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    Of course! How could I have missed it? No wonder the animation in the old toy ads is so much better than the actual cartoon was! Your point is well-taken. I see now flaws in the argument.
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    I choose to view it as two triangles sharing point Basara. Which, of course, means Mylene was competing with Sivil and didn't know it.
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    You make an excellent point. I would counter with the argument that while suckitude is multiplicative with runtime, a movie with 17 sucks and 1 runtime is still worse than a movie with 8 sucks and 2 runtime. And the first movie was WAY worse than the rest of them. It's one of the worst movies I have ever seen. And the "skillful" Jazz will always be remembered as "waz crackin', bitches" and "ripped in two by Megatron" , because it was the sum total of his contributions to the first movie. Indeed, to the entire live-action franchise. Minimal appearances just makes the scant screen time a character DOES have that much more important. And the movies have been big enough to define the characters for a generation. Frightening, isn't it?
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    That is amazing.Honestly, I'm kinda glad for Colonial Marines being this way. It's legendary.
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    Because Micheal Bay is a lightning rod for opinions. Also because the first one was tremendously awful.
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    As you said, we gave them David Hasselhoff. We also gave them television, microprocessors, cars, jets, trains, and nuclear weapons... umm, maybe scratch that last one. Seriously, though... I would love to own an HD transfer of Knight Rider.
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    Yeah, it's a pretty solid comedy series. And it's got an introvert bookworm character that behaves realistically! Bonus points! Bad news, that's just the prologue. The game runs it on first boot and "clearing" it drops you to the title screen(where all subsequent boots start you). Rin's taking a back seat next episode and people start dying when they are killed. Except Shirou. Killing him just makes him angry. Rin's already done enough damage anyways. Pretty much every last word of the prologue is either horribly misleading or an outright lie. But fear not. The UBW arc is totally Archer's show. Even when Shirou's in the spotlight, it's still Archer's show. I'm still hoping they figure out a way to animate Heaven's Feel somewhere down the line.
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    I just want to point out this is the same Prime that has hooks built into his wrists for the explicit purpose of ripping faces off of people. Galvatron bugs me for the silliest reason. He has no spark, he shouldn't BE self-aware, and this has been bothering me ever since I finished the movie. Yes, THAT is where I choose to make my stand with the writing. Yes, I'm aware this does not bode well for me. A FRENCH helicopter!
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    At 3:20... it may just be my age, but I took it as Lockdown trying to look like a badass moreso than "frakk yeah, a Lambo!" I see where he's getting his interpretation, and he's probably right. I just took it as the Transformers version of Anime Villain walking through a fire. Of course, Lockdown was apparently supposed to be a muscle car before Lamborghini wanted a bit of product placement. So Lamborghini may not have ruined the movie, they ruined a toy. And IMNSHO, the most egregious product placement mark went completely un-noted. Drift the japanese fanboy samurai turns into a Bugatti. He SHOULD have been a Honda or a Toyota or... you know, ANYTHING japanese. But he's french. Because... because... ummm... hang on, it'll come to me... Yeah, I got nothin'. I can only assume France is known for their samurai warriors, but it sounds wrong somehow. He even wears not just the Bugatti logo in the very center of his chest, but the entire grill. And they make sure to give us a closeup.
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    Because most TVs still have overscan even though it's actually HARDER to do overscan than to not do overscan on a modern display. The windowboxing is intended to cancel that out so the viewer can ACTUALLY see the entire image. They're trying to cancel out one piece of stupid with another piece of stupid. And those of us who own TVS THAT WORK RIGHT are suffering for it. (An overscan-free mode was a mandatory feature on my checklist the last time I went TV shopping. I am still stunned that overscan survived the digital transition.)
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    I was not being entirely fair when I called Basara oblivious. I mean, he IS, but it's not just because he's a dunce with no social skills. He is highly preoccupied.
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    THAT'S what I expected. Personally, I don't deny it's a bad idea. Just that I suspected(and appear to have been right) that it was considered a major feature of the original toy in Japan. If it has a trailer(LIKE PRIMUS INTENDED), then the Japanese perspective is likely that the rest of the cars should fit in the trailer or what's even the point? It's like a Soundwave that can't hold cassettes. ... And then they chose to compromise the cars rather than the trailer.
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    It's like they say. You can't spell ignorant without IGN.
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    Absolutely. A PC Engine would've been a nice choice too. Though relatively obscure next to the Genesis. At least they'd be contemporaries. Hey, the Super CD-ROM could even preserve the "trailer" concept for Prime. I like this more the more I think about it.
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    I didn't realize someone had tried. I fully expected it to fail miserably. My instincts are good, apparently. In any case, it's probably not going to be an issue any time soon.
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    I got their ages off the Compendium. Which should be age at first appearance, so I'm within a year. I was more impressed by the fact that she made it TO fifteen, honestly. Remember, the zentradi don't have proper childhoods. They're grown in a cloning chamber and by all appearances, they come out fully-grown and ready to fight. It's not that she's already an ace at the young age of fifteen, it's that she's a fifteen-year veteran in the craziest and most dangerous part of the army. And in the zentradi army, so she's probably spent most of that time shooting things, and being shot at by a lot of things that failed to hit her. Down time is for people who weren't born to fight.
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    We all have our faults. This is mine. I took the temper-tantrum as more "'Bee is a teenager, and these guys just bootlegged him and put the bootleg on display with a video explaining how shitty Bumblebee was." Basically a standard adolescent outburst more than crazy Prime's complete disconnect from everything. Though there's a good argument to be made for the Transformers never really mentally maturing. It explains a lot about much of their behavior across the entire brand if they all have permanently child-like brains. Those are the bootlegs. Seriously. In-universe, they are Transformers knockoffs built by humans. The "real" Transformers still transform properly. More or less. The bootlegs were designed, in-universe, to look cool and high-tech. So they have a transformation that would've looked high-tech a few decades ago when wire-frame graphics were all the rage. Yeah. Someone dropped the ball there. I don't think it actually saved time or money. It looked like a pain in the ass to animate. At first glance, it looks really simple, yes. But there's more than meets the eye to that effect. The wire frame skeleton actually has volume, texture, and lighting, so it's not really a wire-frame and they had to spend an absurd amount of effort on rendering the "wire frame" in addition to the cubes and the car and the robot. And they ARE rendering both the car and robot at the same time in many cases. I'm not gonna go back and freezeframe to check the lighting and shadowing on the swarm of cubes, but... I'd bet on them getting a lot more attention than it seems like they did. It was a very expensive way to make it look like the movie was made with cutting-edge CG effects from 1985, and I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
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    And Super Mario Brothers is only about twenty minutes long if you omit the constantly dying part. I think it's totally fair to include the time taken to master the game as part of the total play time. Think of the replay value! Rather than memorizing scripted checkpoints and optimal routes, you need to understand how the AI works and the map is set up. Everyone will have a different experience every time they play. It's a beautiful thing. I fully expected the scare factor to wear off after a little while. It's a shame, but whatcha gonna do? BAHAHAHAHA! That's amazing! ... Okay, granted I was pissed as hell when i got murdered at a telephone save point in Parasite Eve. But it's probably my own dang fault for trying to make a phone call in the middle of a chase scene. Isn't that what an Alien game SHOULD be? Honestly, I'm going to stand back and see what happens for a bit. I fully expected mixed reviews, with some punishing it aimplt for following Colonial Marines, some boosting it simply because it's a horror game in the Alien setting, some hating it for not being memorizable or Rambo-able, and some loving it for the same reason. It's a perfect storm of how to generate crazy unstable reviews. But EVENTUALLY some truth of how solid a game it actually is will settle out.
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    To my understanding, it was also a design goal of the original Diaclone line, that the cars would fit Convoy's trailer. Roller is a filler piece so you have something to do with the catapult even if you don't have a car (yet). You can't very well call it a masterpiece if it doesn't do EVERYTHING the original did, right? In seriousness, I am assuming this feature of the line got more attention in Japan than America, so they care more than we do that the cars fit into Prime's trailer. I fully expect that if they ever do "Scramble City" masterpieces, they will preserve the limb-swapping gimmick, because Japan is very familiar with that feature.
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    Sorry, I still read Basara as simply not realizing Mylene had a crush on him. He wasn't ignoring her because it was the grown-up thing to do, he was just completely oblivious. Also worth noting that SHE got married at fifteen, to a sixteen-year-old. I'm sure Max tried to explain and just got "She's almost as old as I was when I got married!" And of course, after armageddon happened, things changed pretty rapidly, so it's not like she could just look around and assemble some rational frame of reference for "normal" human life.
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    I wouldn't go THAT far. I think this is the best live-action Transformers movie yet, though that is damning with faint praise. The humans don't make me want to kill them every time they're onscreen, the cybertronians are treated as PEOPLE and not tools... The action is coherent and engaging, albeit over-the-top... There's no awkward bathroom humor, no random pantyshots... It's THIS CLOSE to actually being a good movie. Dark of the Moon was the first one I didn't regret watching, and Age of Extinction is the first one I might actually rewatch(if it was shorter, I WOULD rewatch it, but I don't think it's got three hours of quality in it). Crazy Prime is a sociopath. A literal, clinical one. He does not empathize with others, and is prone to impulsive and excessive behavior. But at least he's been consistent across all four movies. And, you know, TRIES to do right, even if he's not entirely clear on what right IS all the time. I like how he's gotten angry at the mistreatment of himself and his charges in the last two. Primus knows humanity's given him enough reason to just bulldoze them all(wait, wrong altmode) in the movies.
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