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    We'll have answers to all these questions and more once the review embargos lift(allegedly on the fifth). The only "notable" thing about AMD's benchmarks is they were actual performance, not upscaled from a lower resolution and with frame interpolation turned on. That this is notable is a sad statement on the modern tech market.
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    Pr'y much. nVidia said even -5% was nothing to worry about, didn't even warrant telling manufacturers they sent out defective chips.
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    AMD hasn't set a suggested price yet. GN put up an "old man yells at cloud" video, inspired partially by people in the Radeon division asking journalists such as him what price they should be setting, because they don't have one and their homework is due on the 28th. This is weirder than nVidia's thing, where the board manufacturers learn what suggested retail is at the same time we do. nVidia knows but doesn't tell anyone, AMD just doesn't know.
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    Oh! I didn't know Discotek had picked this one up! Gonna have to pick it up for myself. I swear, Discotek just licenses what they want to watch, with no consideration for how it will sell. I don't know how they keep making money, but I'm glad they do it.
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    Don't jinx it, they might start talking about it again!
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    Almost a decade since the film was announced...
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    They're still around, and if you use a non-Nook e-reader they don't want your business.
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    My connection to Drift is mostly from when he became a meme here. Every Drift I've bought is actually Peg. "Drift" is the name of the self-insert fanfic character he put in his webcomic about Transformers.
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    Well, at least we know it won't be in worse shape. If things do manage to actually somehow get WORSE than they are right now price-wise, I think it will just signify that computers are over.
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    That sure is the Mach 5...
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    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.
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    Yes! Blue sky in games!
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    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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