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  1. JB0
    The bridge bunnies were just touched by the protoculture. Nothin' weird about that. Be weirder if she had normal eyes, really.
  2. JB0
    Yes. And that the termites you found later weren't their fault.
  3. 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.
  4. JB0
    Hey, don't hate on potato salad guy!
  5. JB0
    No?
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    To be fair, how many of us are kicking in five grand to get this made? It IS our fault!
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    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.
  9. JB0
    I wish I could chip in one single cent. Just to cost them the processing fees.
  10. 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
  13. JB0
    I thought the primary utility of Rowboat-tech threads was the comedy value. It's the best medicine, after all.
  14. 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.
  15. JB0
    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.
  16. 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
  18. JB0
    You make an excellent series of poijnts, good sir.
  19. JB0
    Well, the world needed a WFC Scorponok.
  20. JB0
    I think it's probably a good time to point out that high-profile Kickstarter campaigns have a lot of problems with "backer trolls" that dive on high-value or limited rewards early on, then cancel their pledges in the last few minutes of the campaign. On the other hand, there's also usually a last-minute pledge rush, even in lower-profile campaigns. Lotta people wait until it's almost over to decide if/how much they need to chip in. I saw(backed, actually) one Kickstarter that generated a full half of it's funding in the last four days. It was obvious to everyone it was going to fall far short in the end, dude did his kickstarter concession speech and thanked everyone for being awesome, then overnight a tsunami of dollar bills rolled across his desk and he was back in business. So Rawboot-eck could yet get funded, though I wouldn't place any money on it(no pun intended). I hope they cross the finish line, though. Regardless of whether it ever actually comes out, this crap is gonna be hilarious.
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    That's Robotech. In Macross, all evidence indicates humanity was at peace(or what passes for it 'round these parts) before the alien spaceship crashed down. And THEN global war broke out because everyone wanted a piece of that ASS(-1). The Unification Wars only happened BECAUSE of those jerk aliens littering the galaxy with their broken war machines.
  22. JB0
    "1000 kilos of blow HIGH-QUALITY ANIMATION"
  23. JB0
    And that's why I refused to watch it. If they'd called it Cyberofficer or Mechapopo, I might would've watched it as a forgettable near-future sci-fi movie. But as a remake of Robocop? No. The trailer told me all I needed to know. There was no respect for the original at all, it was a shameless cash grab, and I refuse to reward anyone for that kind of production.
  24. JB0
    I'm Jaybee Zero, and I approve of this message.
  25. JB0
    In any case, HG needs to lay off poor Carl. ... I'd've SWORN Shadow Chronicles was later than that. Ah well, we all knew I was crazy.
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