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    I think the official answer is overtechnology makes them durable enough that it doesn't matter. Battroid mode in particular is noted to be more durable due to having spare juice from the reactors to power the very hungry energy-converting armor systems that make the machine MUCH more durable. (Historically, this isn't active in fighter mode since the engines are busy throwing the plane forward and have less power available, hence why they can beat on a battroid all day but a fighter folds like paper-mache)
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    I just wish they'd figured out this was d ad two years ago and not spent... however much money and manpower has gone into it since the trouble started.
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    CED is wild tech. But yeah, there's relatively little hardware, and the styluses haven't been made for decades. The format isn't completely unplayable yet, but it is well on its way. YouPotato Technology Connections did a five-part documentary about the format and it's history because there was just slightly too much information to fit into one episode... and slightly too much information to fit into the second episode, and slightly too muck information to fit in the third... and his thirty-minute swim turned into a two-and-a-half-hour deep dive because there was just so much going on. https://youtu.be/PnpX8d8zRIA
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    And what we know of overtech in the setting suggests they can get their propellant very hot indeed.
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    Most of my Quest 3 time is split between Synth Riders(my music game of choice) and Elite: Dangerous via PC linkage. The ability to connect to a PC and play any SteamVR game is not to be underestimated. That said, I'm still mad at Meta for erasing everyone's Rift homes. I had a nice place in cyberspace, and now I'm cyberhomeless.
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    Statistically speaking, they probably teamed up to clown on Starscream.
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    Yeah. The existing Game Metroplex is sort of gangly and lanky. In my mind, Metroplex should be the opposite of that. Maybe a faithful G1 Metroplex is TOO boxy, but... meh. I like what I like.
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    In fairness, Operation Stargazer did show reaction weapons to be extremely powerful. It just... also showed them to be susceptable to teleportation.
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    It really couldn't have been abated to any appreciable degree. The show presents the argument as "opening negotiations before or after demonstrating our military might", but the zentradi didn't want to talk regardless. Evacuation of the Earth was completely beyond humanity's capabilities at the time.
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    Seems like the fuels we look at in modern terrestrial fusion are actually still the most suitable, though. Stars burn a bunch of stuff that is pretty inefficient as a fusion fuel. Not just hard to fuse, but they get less energy out of it too. So it makes sense the usual suspects are still what Macross uses in practice even if they can technically use other fuels. ... And I still wonder what Back to the Future's "Mister Fusion" was ACTUALLY doing.
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    I guess that'd work, but you won't get much hydrogen. 0.5 parts per million hydrogen. As an aside, looking this up led me to looking at stellar evolution, and apparently there's a lot of energy loss due to neutrino production when fusing heavier atoms.
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    It probably wouldn't be worth it. While I can't speak for the colony worlds, Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen. And while nitrogen CAN be fused, it is significantly harder than the traditional hydrogen or helium. On the other hand, it's much easier to get your hands on nitrogen.
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    Fire Guts Truck God Ginrai.
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    Not ONCE have I read this title as anything other than someone swearing at an annoying spectre.
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    They actually did replace stickers with paint and molded detail. Of course, the proportions and deco being the same as the original toys is the whole point. I feel like the concept pitch could be "the toys you thought you had as a kid". They could make them look puffy and unpainted toon-accurate. But then they'd just be yet another way to do the same thing as the MP line and Studio Series. I know they DID the toon-color Missing Link, and also the toon-color G1 reissue, but... I don't understand them.
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    Surprised they ran the Unreal Tournament episode after Epic pulled it from all modern stores. I guess that means we're probably still go for Concord in the back half.
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    Well, if they knew what to sink money into, they wouldn't be having those problems.
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    The car is based heavily on the one Sonic drives in the Sonic & All-Stars racing game trilogy. Miles "Tails" Prowers' airplane prop should stick out his butt. I'm just sayin'.
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    It isn't too different from real-world fighter jets in that regard. The countries that develop them keep the best stuff for themselves. Just ask anyone in NATO whose flag has less than 50 stars what it feels like to fly an F-22. And it makes sense, given the transition from "Earth runs the galaxy" to "the colonies are more or less independent states". While the Sol system is still at the forefront of development and has more resources to work with, the colonies are more allied countries than they are part of one big happy expanded Earth. Occasionally the colonies go to war with each other, and someone wants to make darn sure they don't get ideas about trying that nonsense with the motherland.
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    To clarify, the "retro gaming experience" in the US was mostly "computers are for nerds". Most people just didn't have home video games between the time they liquidated the Ataris, Colecos, and Intellivisions and the time Nintendo rose.
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    Other entries in the modern Chogokin line suggest otherwise. They've even released a Rubix Cube that turns into a robot. Heck, they released a toy of the Chogokin logo that turns into a robot.
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    Minor tweaks to greatly improve a toy: So I was kinda ADDing and grabbed a random nearby toy robot to flip parts around on. Laid my hands on a Ratchet van. I couldn't remember which one, the internet says it was from the Bumblebee movie. What I do remember is he's been in the ambulance-esque mode almost since I got him because the humanoid form is kinda short and dumpy. And he came with an eff-off huge cannon that looks like it belongs to Megatron. And that's still true today, though my memory is harsher on these proportions than my eye, but the gun's still ridiculous... but there's this purple car I don't remember the name of with a neato pistol that kinda looks like some sort of cybertronic multitool. Swap the two weapons around and now Ratchet looks like a doctor and random purple Car-tron looks dangerous. Edit: Ehh, my camera didn't pick up the details on the hand-tool. To my eye, it looks like some sorta combination scanner/knife/welding laser. Even if it reads as a gun, it isn't a GIANT gun. It's actually kinda tiny, by the standards of the franchise. So at worst, it looks like an emergency sidearm. Ideally it looks like he's carrying a sci-fi medical tool. Either way, it's more appropriate to a medic.
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    Yeah, I dug up some videos after having similar issues. It just takes a terrifying amount of force. There's a visual tell that the manual TRIES to call out, but without using words it is often hard to tell WTF these illustrations mean. The plate that flips down in his stomach area mates into a cubby in the gray part, and there is tab at the bottom that is supposed to secure that plate. There's a gap along the bottom of that plate that disappears once the chest is fully engaged and the tabs on the black and gray pieces interlock.
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    I'd describe him as "low-budget Alternators", if I had to staple him into a category. The fact that most of the black has a matte finish bothers me, and it is made worse by the car roof being glossy. They forgot KITT's molecular-bonded shell! The Pontiac emblems on the wheels, and bright red tail lights bug me too, but not nearly as much. I can even forgive the tail lights, just pop up the headlights and there's now a good reason for them to be "illuminated". Surprisingly, the chin doesn't bother me, though if I had my way it would pivot up and hide in car mode, and swing down to bulk out the torso in robot mode. But that's probably not compatible with electronic lights and sound.
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    That's kind of actually a canon problem for at least one of them. According to the toy bio, the decepticon Misfire has terrible aim, and is considered more of a threat to his allies than the autobots. What's a short-handed decepticon commander to do? Get him a smart gun that can do the aiming for him! Targetmaster process, GO! ... He was paired with Aimless, who is depressed and doesn't care enough to even try aiming, so now Misfire is EVEN MORE of a threat to everyone around him. Good job, guys!
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