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  1. JB0
    I think the target market is individuals with a fondness for cool robot toys and a surplus of disposable income. I also suspect the line exists as an award for modern Transformers engineers(having suffered under the tight paint and part restrictions of the TF line, neo-Diaclone allows them to go wild). I don't think Neo-Diaclone would really scratch an itch for original Diaclone homages(some of the old-name designs are fairly far from the originals, and there's a lot of them with no "G1" root at this point), but the few I've picked up are really cool toys and I wish I could just go all-in on the line, drop a friggin' grand on Robot Base, and then spend even more to build a force of Battle Convoys and Big Powereds to march alongside it. I couldn't justify buying Battle Convoy V-Max at the time, and I believe that one sold out unusually fast for neo-Diaclone since everyone knew the Prime connection. I did get the later Powered Convoy set(which honestly seems to owe more to God Ginrai than to the original Powered Convoy that became Ultra Magnus).
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    That's wild. I didn't know whales could program.
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    Yeah. And even if they're still stuck hard on the "no meatsack pilots in Transformers toys", they could've made a Baby Yoda powermaster or something. Tiny cute green guy that folds into a pod-shaped chunk of starship. But yeah, I'm certain they wanted the kiddo in there and it was vetoed late enough that they couldn't redesign the pod to be in-scale or integral.
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    It worked better in the earlier releases, when they included tiny pilot figures, so Darth Vader's TIE Fighter turned into a giant robot Darth Vader that was piloted by Actual Darth Vader. I don't know if it was to cut costs, avoid brand confusion, or choking hazard, but after the first few waves they ditched the not-dianauts and the line got weirder. Looks to me like Amanda Lorian was intended to come with a Baby Yoda figure, and it was cut late in the design cycle.
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    I like the design, but the implementation is sorely lacking. It is a lot more fidgety than it needs to be for what it does(likely a vestige of the original voyager design, there's a few pieces that make no sense unless it was designed as a triple-changer)
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    I dunno, that harpoon gunpod looked pretty lethal to me...
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    Sometimes people just get really lucky. When they found a usable world like right at the very start of their mission, someone was celebrating a speedrunning victory.
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    They eventually made one, as a Frontier crossover. It is somehow even worse-paced.
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    I mean, he's not wrong. They've been acting like an obvious phallus for years now.
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    Honestly, I just roll with it most of the time. It is a silly franchise with a silly premise, so when the cartoon's doing something silly, it is just... on-brand.
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    Some of the Constructicon trumpeteers don't even have mouths! Galvatron was spot-on when he called that scene bad comedy.
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    If I recall, there's also deleted scenes in Aliens where the company sends a message to the colonists to explore the location of the crashed ship.
  13. JB0
    Yes! Blue sky in games!
  14. JB0
    Daaaaaaaang. As always, I salute your suffering.
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    Yes. It's just a MiSTer in a PSOne-looking case, and the Saturn core for MiSTer is in pretty good shape these days by most counts.
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    I feel extremely old suddenly.
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    The Superstation One isn't really an FPGA PS1. It's a MiSTer in a PSOne-styled case.
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    Review I just saw of the 5090 summed it up depressingly well. 25% performance uplift vs a 4090 for a 25% increased power draw and a 25% increased MSRP. I miss the days when a new generation meant it worked better and the price for a given performance level went down.
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    Shockwave was also a mold Takara didn't own, and once they started selling Transformers in Japan and importing the cartoon, they politely requested that Hasbro spend less time advertising other people's toys. ... Not that it stopped Sky Lynx, I guess?
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    Of course, if you're like me and disable subpixel anti-aliasing because it is garbage doesn't work for you anyways, you don't have to care about the subpixel layout. Hooray!
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    As realistic as manufacturer-supplied benchmarks ever get, anyhow. It does seem like the gains are almost entirely attributable to multi-frame generation.
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    In fairness, if they're only doing one set of captions, it should be "for the hearing-impaired". I assume they aren't ACTUALLY closed captions, since no one's complained about the huge black boxes. Open captions for the win!
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    Steve making fun of marketing copy for a half-hour is glorious.
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    Hear, hear! This man gets it!
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    Disappointing, but what I expected from the preview images.
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