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    But how will we get our laughs if it fails?!?! This cannot stand!!!!!! Because, seriously, I ALMOST got enough laughs out of the Shadow Chronicles debacle to justify buying myself a copy. Almost. My DVD rack remains untainted, despite seeing a few LIMITED COLLECTOR'S BUY NOW SELL LATER ON EBAY EDITION copies clearanced out for five bucks. Devil's advocate here, but from the perspective of a Hollywood exec checking off bullet-points, nerdy is "in" right now. Superhero movies, giant robots, transforming robots, 80s nostalgia, japanese sci-fi adaptations... Nerdy as hell, and bringing in bank. The bullet-point judgement system that seems to drive Hollywood decision-making processes says Robotech is the perfect next blockbuster. It has giant transforming japanese robots from the 80s. They're just missing superheroes. What I'm saying is if they make a Robotech movie, Rick Hunter's gonna be a jedi. If it bombs, it just proves audiences are sick of sci-fi, and nostalgia is dead. For real this time, not like every other time a bad movie did poorly and the suits ignored the movie's quality and made extrapolations from the bullet list instead. The bigger obstacle here is the, err, "creative team" at HG. More specifically, the raging egos therein. They'll torpedo any attempt to get it on the big screen. Which is a shame, because I would pay to see a Robotech movie produced by even a marginally-competent staff. Because giant transforming japanese robots from the 80s fills out MY bullet list.
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    Inferno Cop is the best anime of all time. As far as Sailor Moon Crystal goes, I like the premise of the new opening, and it's almost over-aggressive focus on the "girl power" angle. The original theme is entirely focused on the Usagi/Captain Capeman destined romance thing, and... well, that's only a small portion of the show, and not what ANYONE was watching it for. The new opening strikes me as far more appropriate to the content. Also, I laughed when the single wistful romantic scene in the new opening animation was shut down by Luna and the girls. Best scene in the entire episode. All that said, the original opening is a better tune. Maybe they should've used the old english opening. ... Don't hurt me! I'm sorry! I won't say it again!
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    Roy Focker gets a Big Gulp dumped on his head for hitting on a chick, because he is a smooth ladies man.
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    Oh, I appreciate it. I just haven't had anything much to add. Since I appear to be the only one that saw the title and immediately thought the most Robotech thing they could do was adapt Lazer Tag Academy into Robotech Academy.
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    It's also hilarious, as per the other thread.
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    A new-run 360 pad. I have two 360 pads, one from early in the system's life, one from late in the system's life. And the difference is night and day. I'd recommend a HoriPad EX2, but they are long out of production it seems.
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    So you're saying that fifteen new Robotech movies came out, and people complain they do nothing with the franchise?
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    I've actually been surprised how fair R-Type games tend to be, at least on earlier stages. There's almost always a powerup or two immediately after a checkpoint, so you're never playing naked. And the game USUALLY offers the best powerup for a particularly biased area before that area starts. Or at least a good guess at a useful weapon in III and Final, where weapon diversity makes a guarantee difficult(it's somewhat impressive that Δ's staff managed to create three unique sets of weapons that cover roughly similar use patterns, and I can't really fault Final's team for not making about seventy trillion weapons that cover the same three use patterns). Later stages are just a giant steaming pile of mandatory memorization, though. And that's pretty much across the entire franchise.
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    THE awesomest, of course, was a Captain Power videojacking.
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    Do the rights to rebadge Lazer Tag Academy really cost a half million?
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    R-Type Final is flawed, but fun. I still don't understand where all that slowdown comes from. But being able to play the R-90 and Leo again? Worth it. (Dear irem: why has there NEVER been a port of R-Type Leo? I mean, seriously.)
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    I had the view full version button on Android Chrome. I clicked it and now I'm locked into the full version because the theme selector doesn't show.
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    That reminds me of another Prime, from another time.
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    Eh, it wouldn't be the first time I took a made-up story at face value. On the other hand, if it was just about the gun... Honda was easy enough to satisfy by removing the gun from the package.
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    My understanding was Volkswagen was pretty insistent they didn't want to be associated with war at all, and that's a hard condition to fill for a Transformer.
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    Okay, seriously... I'm trying to figure this out, and I can't. How did Takara get the Volkswagen license? Or are they just gonna laugh and be "This could be ANY car, you can't prove it's a Volkswagen Type 1"?
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    http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_(G1) Your's is better, though I don't like how Sludge's neck sticks up like that.
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    I think he'd probably take the name Nemesis Prime, personally. But Scourge has the advantage of being applied to the mold I was thinking of when I said flamethrower.
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    True facts: I've not watched EITHER Total Recall movie. But I HAVE read "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" before. It's a fun story, and the REAL original version.
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    As far as Prime killing people goes... In fairness, this is just a more personal touch on movie Prime's attitude to date. He was pretty willing to let the 'cons trash human cities just to teach the fleshlings a lesson back in Dark of the Moon. He's always been a bit less compassionate in the live-action films than most other incarnations. Arguably borderline insane. And the humans have been kind of jerks to the autobots when you look at the movies. They've been enslaved, isolated, used as tools, discarded when it was convenient, lied to about SERIOUS BUSINESS, and whatever is new for the fourth movie. And yes, Prime was in a bit of a huff back in Dark of the Moon, but... he still sort of let Megatron and Sentinel kill everyone in Chicago. Not because he couldn't stop them, or because he had to form a plan, but TO TEACH THE HUMANS A LESSON. He waited while the pitiful meatbags were scoured away so that the survivors would realize they DID need the autobots to protect them and MAYBE they deserved a bit better treatment. Apparently they didn't GET that better treatment. I fully expect Optimus to get a flamethrower, swap out his faction symbol, and start scouring the surface clean himself in the next movie.
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    Theoretically possible is the best kind of possible. ... Hmmm, I wonder how difficult building such a telescope would actually be. You'd need a helluva large reflector, that's for sure. Maybe spread the lens system out over several light-years, since you have FTL travel. Each lens is a drone ship equipped with it's own hyperdrive unit, and it jumps to the new focal point on command. That'd help restrict your field of view. Controlling light leakage would be a royal pain, though... Big dadgum telescope though. I applaud the reference, good sir. That said, I rather like the name New Eden myself.
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    Good old animated GIF. Never runs the same rate twice. No, I have nothing useful to add.
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    Man, how do Skids and Mudflap rip Devastator's face off from the inside only to go out like punks to Sentinel?
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    I do not deny this.
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    Some day... mark my words, some day...
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