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    The only FarCry I've played is Blood Dragon.
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    At least they're being honest about their recent work?
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    I hope in true inept fashion, the big unveil is the Back to the Future Transformer that sold out in seconds a week ago.
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    Oooh. That's very tempting.
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    Oh my, that's adorable.
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    I am just assuming this Starscream toy will be slavishly toon-accurate, omitting any detail that would be visually interesting... And that it will nonetheless be based on his appearance in the most toy-accurate episode they can find, so his entire robot torso will just be hangin' out on the underside of the plane like the best toy engineering 1983 had to offer.
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    Don't forget how they were hyping the show as having Star Trek's "first black female captain", the press kept insisting that meant both first black captain and first female captain, the studio did NOTHING to correct that misperception, and Sisko and Janeway fans just seethed in rage(not that either of them was technically first either).
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    I just love this picture. It implies that Menasor doesn't so much transform as he does "dress himself", and it makes me smile to imagine him picking up his shirtsleevebots and putting them on.
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    They copied the X-Wing books, and did it badly.
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    Present company excepted, of course.
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    As I've said before, I didn't really want more George Lucas movies either. But I think the prequel trilogy was better than the sequel trilogy because, as bad as it was, it was the movies someone actually wanted to make. There was a passion there. A gravely misguided passion, but passion nonetheless. The Disney films are the movies that some accountants armed with focus group studies calculated would check all the boxes for a maximal return on investment. The have no heart, no soul. They aren't the movies ANYONE wanted to make.
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    They also had no plan for sequels. They wrote ONE film, with little more guidance than "include some plot hooks we can latch into when we start writing the sequel next year." And no one across the hall in the Marvel Studios division ever leaned out the door and shouted "Hey, writing three movies at the same time makes it a lot easier to generate a coherent narrative." I'm not. My overriding thought coming out of the theater was "That felt more like Star Wars than Star Trek ." Knowing that they were trying to do exactly that leaves me thoroughly unsurprised.
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    They actually flew through a rift in spacetime, arrived hundreds of thousands of years in the past, and became the original founders of the Protoculture empire.
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    Me three. I... Wait, I've been deemed an "essential worker" and I've been too busy and stressed to care about anime and games.
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    I mean, isn't that basically a rule of acquisition already? "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Sounds a lot to me like "The riskier the road, the greater the profit". Nog is a man of two worlds, and I think he can straddle the line between Starfleet-acceptable and Ferengi-approved. Also, how the heck is a Trek licenseholder even ALLOWED to "crowdsource" the design of an Enterprise? I would think CBS or Paramount or Star Trek Licensing LLC or whoever the hell owns the brand these days would be ADAMANT about controlling with the Enterprise looks like.
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    I'm okay with taking parts off or swapping them around sometimes*, but this is a lazy half-butted way to do it. You don't just toss half the friggin' car aside and go "there, transformation finished" *I'm actually harsher on scorpion-tail assemblies that exist only so the part you're swapping is never technically detached. They get in the way and do not meaningfully change the part's relationship with the rest of the toy.
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    A VF-0 with YF-25 engines... that can't be good for the airframe, or anything attached to or contained within it.
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    NO ONE deserves to be Quamzin's boss.
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    I thought Delta was "okay" until the funeral. Until that point I thought they'd overpromised and underdelivered, but it was still kinda interesting. But after that it went into a holding pattern for several episodes, with an episode consisting almost entirely of exposition summarizing the franchise to date(badly), and I just completely lost interest. ... But I still insist that Lady M is Doctor Chiba!
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    I remember watching this show, but all I remember of it is "space elves in spandex".
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    I saw it in this thread, actually. Understandably easy to miss given we're in a megathread. It was sourced from Macross Chronicle originally. It isn't all about raw performance, it is about how it FEELS. Remember that one of the things Isamu wanted was the YF-19's original flight control software... let's ignore that this software was responsible for multiple test-pilot deaths, and deemed so completely unsalvagable that it was thrown out and replaced with a reworked version of the VF-11 code. It offered the feel that Isamu wanted.
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    It is totally official. He gave Neumann his entire UN Spacey retirement fund and his life savings to get a custom VF-19 that is close in configuration to the YF-19 he tested/saved the world with. Because no plane he's been in since has been even remotely as fun to fly. This was after he tried and failed to buy an entire export-restricted VF-19 one piece at a time. He's lucky Neumann noticed before the UNS did. I love Isamu. (Neumann got around the export restriction by declaring Isamu's custom VF-19 to be a testbed for a VF-19 modernization program, and Isamu the test pilot for the program. No, Isamu's not getting a paycheck for his testpilot services.)
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    Yup. I firmly believe he is being 100% truthful when he says luck is one of his skills. He knows fortune smiles upon him, and does crazy things because of it. ... What WAS the official government explanation for what he was doing there, anyways? Or did they just say "this guy saved you all from the crazy computer, please don't ask questions because he can't hear you over ths noise ALL THESE MEDALS MAKE!"
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    Also the fact that he didn't actually set out to stop Sharon Apple, and everyone knew it. He set out to wreck the unveiling and official adoption of the Ghost X9. Presumably by blowing it up and embarrassing everyone talking up how much better than a manned fighter it would be. His greatest skill, luck, dropped something really heroic to blow up into his path and saved his bacon.
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    Which is just so Isamu. Attempt to commit minor treason just so he can fly his favorite plane ever, and then actually get away with it.
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