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  1. JB0
    Absolutely. They could just keep adding dinosaurs and I'd keep buying 'em as long as they kept makin' the toys good.
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    My copy of Jiggawatt arrived. It makes me smile like a little kid, so mission accomplished. ... In before someone makes a hoverboard addon and I have to buy an upgrade.
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    Can we petition the Guardian of Forever to borrow him so there's an adult around in the future' future?
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    Also being part of a society that considers complete disintegration and reconstruction a safe and efficient form of travel. Arguably everyone dies every time they go through a transporter.
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    Eleventh day of christmas, it can still be called a christmas gift!
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    Two words: Gary Mitchell.
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    That would be the logical approach, but my impression at the time was that Reed was supposed to have invented the "security alert" policy. Which he jokingly considered naming "reed alert".
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    Don't forget the crew INVENTING force fields and red alert. Only reason they didn't have tractor beams is that the grappling cannon they did have looked cooler onscreen.
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    One wonders how it passed the vaunted quality assurance tests that console manufacturers assure us is the primary reason for strict control of releases and associated licensing fees. It is almost like they're really just looking for a sack of money and aren't booting the games at all.
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    There's a generic "super robots" thread, but no generic non-super that I'm aware of.
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    Minor correction: the foam was thermal insulation for the fuel tank. After being reformulated to be more environmentally-friendly, it began breaking off in chunks during ascent. While the black heatshield tiles were fairly durable, they were never designed for projectile resistance. And NASA management opted for the simplest solution, ignoring the problem. As to the more general "failure" of the shuttle, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report actually has a good bit of detail on that, as they took an extensive look into the history of the shuttle program and NASA management to determine how a known problem was ignored for so long. https://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/CAIB_Vol1.html Short version is that decisions at the presidential level led to NASA adopting a severely compromised vehicle that never met any of its goals.
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    That'd be fair. I can't check, since I got rid of all my Star Wars books ages ago. Selling the X-Wing books was a mistake.
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    One assist, if I recall the books correctly. He's got an assist on DS2 for blowing the power regulator before Lando blew the core, entitling him to paint a half a Death Star under his canopy.
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    They were the best books. It also helped that most of the cast was created FOR these books, and it wasn't the Han, Luke, and Leia Power Hour. Aside from being blank slates full of potential instead of status quo tentpoles, there also wasn't a guarantee that everyone would be okay once the lasers started flying so action scenes had meaning.
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    Set it after the evacuation of Hoth. Luke's off on Dagobah, no need to worry.
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    Not gonna lie, I love that a rocket exploding as it lands is a "failure" instead of just "Well, landing a rocket is hard, it is impressive they got as close as they did".
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    Man, when are they gonna do a Fangry update? Only Headmaster I had as a kid, and the only time they touched him since then was to do a head+targetmaster package.
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    Nah. Face aside, I actually really like the head it came with. Back when it was expected to come with both heads in-box, I was planning to use the "wrong" head anyways.
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    Hot dang! Color me impressed.
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    My Nicee finally arrived. After a shipping delay, and then what on the tracking page appeared to be my local post office receiving the package, getting drunk, holding onto it for a week without doing anything, and then sticking it on a truck back to the regional distribution center(who immediately sent it back to them, after which they promptly delivered it). I was actually worried she was mistaken for a PS5 and absconded with for a second. But she made it through eventually. I have not yet had the energy to figure out how to pose her or with what accessories(the illustrated "trading card" in the box shows her parked seated on the hood of her car mode, but I only ordered one). I love the paint job, though.
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    Been a while, but I thought that was at least half "Where the heck are they going with MY plane?" like he thought it was getting space-repo'ed and had no idea that variable fighters need regular inspection and maintenance.
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    Also, even an unarmed thirty-foot robot poses an inherent threat to pedestrians.
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    I'd hope not, with a highly-visible VF-19 for security. Kinda thing that makes people think twice about smashing a window and taking off with the TV.
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    "Here's the plans for the new jet." "I think there was a problem in the transmission, we're missing some parts." "No, that's complete and correct." "There's no computer. At all." "Oh, don't be such a baby. The Wright brothers didn't whine because they didn't have a computer."
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    He might activate Speaker Pod Gamma first. I know people like to feel the music, but there oughta be limits.
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