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    It's a pretty solid show through the whole run. The big problem it DOES have is at the end it... just ends. They finish the arc they're adapting at the moment and then just call it quits. Which isn't to say it's a bad show, really. But at the point it ends, there's some major plot threads left unresolved.
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    1/48 dead?

    JB0 replied to RCB's topic in Toys

    I've been saying that for years, and people keep thinking I'm joking.
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    I applaude your wit, good sir. You could say I win... from a certain point of view?
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    You make some major factual errors in here, and whitewash some issues in favor of establishing a clear pattern of dominance. I take this dispute seriously enough to type it out twice! Stupid browser. The Pocket didn't add color. That was the GameBoy Color, which is a new system, not a revision. If you feel the need to specify "still plays the old games", you need to reconsider if you're talking about a new system or a revision of an old one. Pocket replaced the old green screen that smeared at the slightest hint of motion with a then-modern gray one that didn't smear. It was also much smaller. And better battery? The pocket used a pair of AAAs. Think how long it could've run on the 4 AAs of an original Gameboy(or even just 2 AAs). I omitted the GBColor because it's a new system. I also omitted the GameBoy Light, because it's japanese-only. It's a GameBoy Pocket with an "indiglo"-style backlight. The "better battery" is highly debatable, particularly as the GBA battery is designed to be changed out. I use NiMH cells in mine, giving me rechargables, longer run time than alkalines, AND the ability to change them out instead of tethering myself to a wall when they get low. As far as the display... it was a frontlit display for all but the last wave. And it was a terrible, washed-out frontlit display with internal reflection issues in high-contrast scenes. The last wave used the same kind of display as the DS, and if that's what ALL the SPs had used, I'd have no complaint on that front. I will concede the possibility my GBA is an outlier in terms of display visibility, but I had very little trouble seeing it, even while playing Circle of the Moon. I will also concede the SP has a better d-pad than the GBA. But the other, previously-mentioned ergonomic considerations offset it. It's too small to be comfortable in my hideous mutant gorilla hands, and the trigger buttons are too far out from the main inputs to be comfortable to use. It's also very front-heavy. And a proprietary headphone jack! In the charger connector! That's completely indefensible! I also dislike the slider volume control Nintendo changed to with the SP(and most subsequent portables). It makes it much harder to dial in a comfortable volume on my headphones. I'd like to skip the GBMicro revision of the GBA, because so did everyone else. But as we're being COMPREHENSIVE here... Better volume control than the SP, removed 8-bit backwards-compatibility, WAAAAAAAAAY too small. Possibly a better d-pad. The screen is apparently utterly GORGEOUS. It MAY have used a proprietary headphone jack again, I'm not sure. The bigger battery is not enough to offset the brighter backlight. On the higher brightness setting, it has LOWER play time than the DS it replaced in spite of the new 1000 mAh battery(the original DS battery is 850 mAh). Also: Improved control pad? It has sharp edges that hurt your thumb after extended play and is very difficult to get diagonals out of. And start and select were re-orphaned and hurt to use. Mostly because it's a new system, not a hardware revision. Apples and oranges. No one loved the DSi XL because of the greatly reduced pocketability. It's interesting to note that due to similar backlights, you actually DO get more playtime out of an XL's 1050 mAh battery than a regular DSi's 840 mAh. What about the 2k? You've forgotten a model AND misrepresent the situation terribly. First change: Early models of the Mk1 had a defective square button that was unresponsive(it was constructed oddly since the button overhung the edge of the screen). This was not a user-visible change, and is not counted as a hardware revision for most purposes, but made a major difference in playability once it was fixed(it still overhung the edge of the screen, but after the fix it merely felt odd as opposed to being unresponsive). The Mk2 changed to a more reliable drive mechanism that didn't eject games during overly-excited play. It also improved the efficiency of the hardware so they could get the same life out of a battery with almost half the capacity(1200 mAh VS the original 2200). The original Mk1 battery was available as an optional purchase for those that felt the battery didn't last long enough. It comes with a bulged battery door because the system is too thin to accomodate the original size battery. Mk2 also added TV out. And is much thinner than the original. And redesigned the square button again, making it feel exactly like it's companions in the diamond. If I recall, it also upped the brightness of the backlight. Mk3 is MOSTLY the Mk2. It replaces the screen with a less blurry one, and integrates a microphone for VoIP functionality without a proprietary headset. It also makes TV out far more versatile. Of course, there's some dozen different motherboard revisions in there, but the only people that care about that are homebrew users and pirates. I completely forgot about the Go even existing. Like most people, I laughed at it, then ignored it. But hey, if we include the GBMicro, may as well include the PSPGo. First, the Go came out BEFORE the Mk3. It follows off the 2k series. It actually premieres the new and improved display that would see wide acceptance in the Mk3. For about a year, it was the best display you could play PSP games on without a TV cable. I suspect the controls aren't as nice as the Mk2 and Mk3 inputs, but they seem servicable. Start and select are also more easily accessed on the Go than the mainline PSPs. I'm gonna have to disagree, especially since you missed a PSP. Sony has , by and large, actually made each revision an improvement. The PSP Go is debatable, but ALL of Nintendo's updates are debatable except the GameBoy Pocket. And I don't think it's unfair to hold the PS1 and PS2's reliability issues against Sony when talking revisions. Nintendo's only had ONE system out of ten wtih major reliability issues. And they would fix it. Sony laughed in people's faces when PS1s and PS2s blew up.
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    It's Nintendo. Their belief in control of information is so strong that I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled the system from the floor JUST to let them announce it on their own terms. Well, yes. That was kind of my point.And Sony has a consistent pattern of major visible hardware revisions that make the new version distinctly superior. Every piece of game hardware they've put out so far has had issues at launch and been revised to not suck so much later. Except the Vita, but if it survives through next year, I expect to see some changes. PS1 and PS2 launch units especially. They were both massively unreliable. While the PS3 has lost features at every step, they've been mostly uninteresting(exception: PS2 compatibility, which is STILL overblown), and they've gained the "not six hundred dollars" feature along the way. Nintendo has a pretty spotty pattern of major revisions, and it's usually debatable if the new one is better or not, GameBoy Pocket being about the only definite yes. Other than that one, there's tradeoffs made if you get the newer revision. Also, the place they made the most hardware changes isn't one people think of. There's over a dozen revisions of the NES, but it's fully transparent to the end user, so no one cares. And while they DO care about the toploading NES... RF output only, and terrible video quality. Which is arguably a fair trade for "actually works when you want it to."
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    Yes. Everyone was waiting for the 3DS XL. Okay, I admit I wanted a larger one, but... everyone else was "where's the smaller model with better battery life Nintendo always puts out six months later, except when they don't?"
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    The funny thing is... I've been wondering for quite some time where the 360's internet browser is. It seems to be the one place they HAVEN'T been playing bullet-point parity ever since the initial launch. I was sure they were going to add it with the last GUI overhaul, when they killed the original interface and made the 360 into a multimedia entertainment device instead of the friggen' VIDEO GAME PLAYER I paid money for.
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    Those are the best nuns.
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    What are you talking about? That movie was a hilarious parody, and that gives it redeeming value right off the bat. The fact that it was ACCIDENTAL parody is irrelevant.I saw that one in theaters and laughed my ass off. ... I got a few dirty looks from the other folks in the theater, but it's their own fault for trying to take it seriously after the crew crashed into a motherloving diamond supergeode. Heck, after the space shuttle crash-landed six inches from a construction worker's unprotected butt and he didn't even notice. It's got a serious case of so bad it's good. I'm gonna go ahead and say it. The worst sci-fi movie is Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Objectively, it's not even close to the worst movie ever. But subjectively, the broken promises, crushed expectations, and shattered dreams were more than enough to push it to the head of the line.
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    "Darius Burst Second Prologue (iOS)" Mother-lovin' Squeenix...
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    Burst Angel has a plot?I've watched like a third of it, and ... if there's a coherent plot, I'm not seeing it. I love the bait and switch, though. First episode acts like this school kid's the main character and sets the expectation the story will be told more or less from his perspective. Then he doesn't even SHOW UP for some episodes, and his role in most of the ones he DOES show up in barely above cameo status.
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    Don't look at me. I'm not hte one buying these things. I just drool on the keyboard a little.
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    Man, I'd still LOVE to have that Powermaster Prime(it comes with it's own core now instead of being an upgrade?). It'd be the toy I THOUGHT I was getting all those years ago. Man, PM Prime was such a disappointment. I think it hit about when I started wanting to do more than wave them over my head and make laser noises with my mouth. I can't justify the cost to fix the years of disappointment, though.
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    In fact, they had orders not to initiate hostilities with any aliens they encountered.See: Booby Trap. It's also implied the Macross was going to go out and look FOR those aliens, leaving Earth in the hands of vessels without fold drives, like the ARMDs.
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    *twitch*
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    Well, yes, it's an adjective. So is vicious. And a thin liquid wouldn't be very viscous at all. ... I apologize for turning this thread into English 101. An Earth so far removed from their own that a greeting they've had ten millenia to plan is bungled because they don't even know how to write japanese anymore. They are now aliens in their own homeland.Most depressing happy end ever.
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    I've tried to ignore this, I really did. But...Vicious, not Viscous. One word means that someone is agressive, the other means that they are a thick, slow-flowing fluid.
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    Hell to the yes. This totally needs to happen.
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    It should if there's not a corresponding amount of comical female nudity!(Actually serious here, not just pushing for more nekkid womens.)
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    "Don't see this movie!" Best advice I've yet seen from a trailer, though I'm afraid my sanity has already suffered permanent damage.
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    Let's put it this way. I haven't watched any Power Rangers since the original(which I deemed as a "cheap Voltron knockoff", and damn the facts), but I'd watch at least an episode or two of Power Rangers: Geek Force just to see what was up.
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    Thsi is the best sentai show ever. Saban should totally do Power Rangers: Geek Force for the next iteration.
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    Sega is the BEST publisher. Am I right, or am I right?
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    I thought we established you were looking at a review for Assasin's Creed, not Armored Core. Revelations isn't an Armored Core subtitle. And who plays Armored Core for the plot? And For Answer was NOT Japan-exclusive. I own it, it's sitting on a shelf next to me. ... Still in the shrinkwrap. I've GOT to stop setting games down and forgetting about them.
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    I know at least one other person that does.No, not me. As far as old game roll call, I've been rockin' me some Crystalis lately.
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