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  1. JB0
    Here's what they need to do. They need some NAME recognition on this kickstarter. Their staff simply isn't pulling their weight as is. I propose they have some of their employees get legal name changes so they can advertise it as "Robotech Academy: by James Cameron and Steven Spielberg" Alternatively, find some guys off the street with suspiciiously familiar names.
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    Personally, I think a sequel needs to bring something new to the table. Otherwise, what's the point? It's a big universe, there's a lot more to see. While I dislike Macross 7's take on things, I appreciate it for what it wasn't. It would've been so easy to just say "let's do SDF Macross all over again" and made a show with no personality of it's own, but they decided to take the express train to Crazyville, population: Basara instead. And then when they decided to do a direct sequel to Macross 7, they decided to shake things up anyways, and Dynamite 7 spent most of it's time far far away from the fleet that had set the stage for the entire TV series dealing with more "down to Earth" problems. Of course, even DYRL chose to portray a MUCH different story than what came before, and it was allegedly remaking the TV series.
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    That Sinon statue is badass. I want it so much.
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    You know, I was gonna make a sarcastic comment about you guys not having the heart to reach into your wallets and help grant Carl's dying wish. But then I decided that was probably beyond the bounds of good taste, even in context. Then the last update happened and HG asked us all to have the heart to reach into our wallets and grant Carl's dying wish. They just keeps digging that hole a little deeper, don't they?
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    Quoted for truth, as they say.
  6. JB0
    If a kickstarter doesn't make it's target, no one gets charged anything.
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    They should just ship an empty box and claim it's a rare thermoptic camoflauge variant.
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    The bridge bunnies were just touched by the protoculture. Nothin' weird about that. Be weirder if she had normal eyes, really.
  9. JB0
    Yes. And that the termites you found later weren't their fault.
  10. JB0
    Well, again, the big difference is that (most) demos were meant to be shared. It's fundamentally impossible to pass a beta key around.
  11. JB0
    Hey, don't hate on potato salad guy!
  12. JB0
    No?
  13. JB0
    To be fair, how many of us are kicking in five grand to get this made? It IS our fault!
  14. JB0
    I'd be a lot less disgusted by how they keep harping about Macek in their sales pitch. But I still wouldn't throw good money at the people who brought you Shadow Chronicles.
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    He's the only logical choice to lead the Decepticons, after all.
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    I wish I could chip in one single cent. Just to cost them the processing fees.
  17. JB0
    What about Metroplex bitchslapping Megatron? You can't tell me you don't want to see THAT.
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    Given they were working with foreign code for a foreign computer system, with no documentation or source(much less COMMENTED AND ORGANIZED source)... it's not hard to imagine they overlooked something. I'd wager much of the technology found in the ASS-1 was still a bundle of mysteries and excitement and "hey, is it going to kill us all if I flip this switch? LET'S FIND OUT!" moments. Now, if they DID have a full understanding of the ship's systems, it would be a pretty good idea to rip the original computer out and replace it with something wrought by human hands. But it's not really a good idea to do that when you aren't even sure what the drivers for your hardware LOOK LIKE, much less how to write your own. I think it's safe to say that drivers for the grand cannon are PROBABLY not compatible with the Macross's bow gun. Personally, with something that hot, I wouldn't even START stripping it down until I had it fully reverse-engineered. All other things being equal, I wouldn't want to fly it at all if I could help it. But of course, they felt a pressing need to get SOMETHING into space to make it look to the aliens like we weren't a bunch of backwater yokels puttering around on CHEMICALLY-FUELED ROCKETS to leave our planet and THROWING CHUNKS OF LEAD at each other in a fight. Yup. And when said guy's goal appears to be "I'mma make me a robot girlfriend, program her with brain scans from some random lady I conned into running concerts from behind the scenes like the Wizard of Oz, and then see what that bot does when I plug her into the central servers of the entire terrestrial defense network, you know, for the lulz", the outcome's going to be somewhat unpredictable, to put it mildly. ... Seriously, who approved wiring Sharon Apple directly into the Macross?
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    Then you have more respect for the man than Harmony Gold does. They're just throwing his name about wildly because he isn't around to stop them anymore
  20. JB0
    I thought the primary utility of Rowboat-tech threads was the comedy value. It's the best medicine, after all.
  21. JB0
    Yup. And really, this doesn't even look that good. It's almost like they bought some stickers out of a gumball machine and slapped them on the system.
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    Yeah, it's WAY better than the first adaptation, which was... pretty godawful terrible. Full disclosure: I've never watched past the second episode of the original, despite multiple attempts. It's POSSIBLE it completely reverses course and becomes tolerable after that, but I doubt it. Episode 2 is just such a MASSIVE hackjob of the story it's adapting that it immediately destroys any faith I could place in the rest of the show. Also, Sinon apparently has a butt. It's good that the animators are calling attention to this, I might not have realized it without their help.
  23. JB0
    Well, yes. I didn't say it WAS ripping R-Type off, just that it reminds me of it. God knows R-Type Final isn't the first thing to make a fightercraft with a comically large underslung cannon. But if it's canon name isn't the Kibblemaster, I will be sad.
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    You know what the VF-??? "Kibblemaster" reminds me of? A kibbled-up angular version of R-Type Final's R9-D2 "Morning Star http://www.slateman.net/rtype/rtypefinal/ships/028.jpg Or possibly just the R9-DH3 "Concert Master" with an underslung barrel. http://www.slateman.net/rtype/rtypefinal/ships/031.jpg
  25. JB0
    You make an excellent series of poijnts, good sir.
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