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    Understandable, really. I mean, it IS her first time speaking japanese, and pronouncing kanji is hard!
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    I've seen some movies I'm pretty sure HAVE taken years off my life. And yet, some people have more input than others, and certain patterns do emerge across a moderately large body of work. A stuntman has only slightly more impact on the final product than I do. A director, however, has a HUGE amount of impact, being capable of hiring and firing many of those other people on your list AT WILL. And rewriting the script, in part or in whole, after the writer is through with it(though the union likely will not allow a director to take sole writing credit). And what may be considered an anomaly with one movie becomes a clear case of a specific MEANINGFULLY influential staff member's personal preferences with some larger number of movies. While I suppose it's POSSIBLE Micheal Bay is only hired to direct movies with lots of explosions and potty humor written into the script by chance, it's not very likely at this point in his career. Especially given eyewitness testimony as to how much he likes explosions. Certainly, there's exceptions. David Fincher had VERY little control over Alien 3, and he almost never directed another movie because of how terrible that first experience was. But they are rare. Capable of pattern recognition? Oh. I thought that was what teenagers with inflated opinions of their tastes called people who didn't share the same taste, because Linkin Park is real music never touched by a marketing exec. Shows what I know. I prefer not spending ten bucks and two hours of my life on an experience that I likely won't enjoy. I lack the time, money, and patience to watch EVERY movie. Therefore, some criteria are needed to filter out films I likely won't enjoy. And if M. Night Shamalama(to pick a recurring name in the thread) has literally never directed a movie I enjoy, why should I believe THIS IS THE ONE, when experience dictates otherwise? (This is, of course, a hypothetical example as I've only seen one Shamalama-directed movie)
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    You say that like it's a hard record to set.
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    Pyroclastic flow?
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    "Dinobots, destroy Devastator!" "Me Grimlock love challenge."
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    Well, if you own them, you have to pay all the taxes and fees, and adhere to any applicable labor laws. Far easier to just go "Eh, I paid a guy to make 'em for me. He swears his factory's on the up and up." Let someone that knows about manufacturing costs, labor law, and the evasion thereof deal with it.
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    False assumption. It's not Hasbro's factory, it's some random manufacturer in China that Hasbro's hired to pump out a few million plastic dinosaurs. They've had problems with the factories leaking stock out the back door for years, with some far more embarassing toys than a Grimlock repaint in that history. Bingo. They've tried to shut it down in the past, but there's not really a lot they can do. If they actually OWNED the factory and had staff paid a reasonable wage, that'd be one thing. But as-is, there's just too much incentive to run a truckload of toys out the back door for any attempt at stopping it to be effective.
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    At this point, is it actually a knockoff? I mean, it's not someone cloning the original toy, it IS the original toy. It's a "fell off the truck" special more than a knockoff.
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    Technically, Jupiter is the FUSE for a giant bomb. Buster Machine 3's detonation triggers all the space bombs that are responsible for DESTROYING THE GALAXY. Gunbuster doesn't do things by half measures, that's for sure. Of course, I saw Jupiter-as-energy-source and thought of Gaogaigar and ZA POWAA.
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    This thread is now officially the Firefox thread.
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    It's never too late to say "Firefox" though.
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    I loved it, personally.
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    Were 1080p TVs even AVAILABLE back in 2001? I seem to recall progressive-scan was the hot feature. But don't feel too bad. It took literally DECADES after HDTV was proposed before it was adopted as a standard. Pretty sure the current status quo is gonna stick around for a while. Provided people with no sense of quality don't completely kill the market for actual disks. Sorry, but a 1080p stream is NOT the same AV quality as a 1080p BluRay. Not even close. I DO still buy CDs... which I then rip to FLAC and put in storage. I won't pay money for lossy compression. Much less friggin' MPEG-2. Basically, online distribution is killing quality, and no one cares.
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    But can she shatter a payphone with her bare hands?!?
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    Wow, I haven't seen that in years and years. I liked it back then. I have not seen it with the critical eyes of an adult.
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    No, TITANIUM Cog! Actually, that wouldn't have been a bad idea BEFORE Konami sent them the angry letter. But now they're under the microscope. Pity, though. Konami used to be real good about looking the other way on this kind of thing. Maybe it just got so big they couldn't pretend they didn't know anymore.
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    What about one that trades it for a spring-loaded auto-evolution gimmick that triggers when you set an included magnetic Matrix into his hands? Because that'd be awesome(albeit terrible for accuracy and transformation)
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    It's not that you're the only person who doesn't like Jazz, just that you're the only person who hasn't realized he likes Jazz yet.
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    Never! I can't... I WON'T!
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    Sorry, man. I just couldn't resist the temptation. If it makes you feel better, I meant that more as "I am in DuelGundam mode here" rather than "DuelGundam said this". I'm not actually sure if that's better or worse, though. I really did like that movie.
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    As far as I know, it's just T&A without ever getting into anything overt. So it would be classified as "fanservice" rather than hentai.
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    I don't see anything? What sequels? What are you people talking about?!
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    *looks* Those are map packs and new guns and a new episode. Not patches. None of the bug fixes are contained in those, though one of the bug fixes was specifically FOR those(the "limited edition" version came with Ripley's flamethrower, and it had an annoying tendency to fire even when you weren't pressing fire in the game as shipped). The bug patches are as free as they always have been. And automatic these days, which blows my crotchety old mind. The first patch included better textures and "various visual improvements" too, and I HAVE seen companies charge for that before. As I said, it would be truly outrageous if companies started charging for bug fixes. Even moreso given the state Aliens LAUNCHED in. THIS remains fully in the realm of parody... for now. That said, wait for the next time it goes on sale. I paid five bucks, so can you. In the meantime... just read the patch notes and laugh at the incompetence. Bullets bouncing off open doors, characters walking through closed doors, and even doors that just didn't "open properly". And this is just THE DOORS. Not that the patch notes are themselves free of glitches. "Resolved issue where campaign Motion Tracker could incorrectly in multiplayer loadouts." That's copy/pasted, lest you think I made a mistake in transcription.
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    Hey, I liked Bicentennial Man! </DuelGundam>
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    It's been patched enough where it's just sub-par now instead of comedically terrible. If they were selling the fixes to make it half the game it should have launched as, I'd be furious.
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