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  1. In honor of current events, I have been watching Cells at Work. There is a stupid amount of detail present in this show about "what if blood cells were cute anime girls", and if it was not ACTUALLY written by a med school dropout, I will be very disappointed.
  2. Given it has "just stopped" twice now, I think this cancellation is just a formal announcement of what we've known for a while now: Mikimoto ain't drawin' Macross the First, and hasn't been for some time.
  3. At least if it is an actual TakaraTomy product, you might get that. I had a bootleg version with a blue decepticon logo, and it was a 128 meg drive that told the OS it had 2 gigs of space.
  4. Okay, that makes sense. I'm imagining them as a space YF-12 now.
  5. How to get my money into CBS All-Access for a month: An episode of Q just eviscerating ST:Picard.
  6. The Lancer size strikes me as odd. Wasn't that designed as a space fighter? I'd've expected some big fuel tanks in it.
  7. Also it makes for a great way to launder money.
  8. I like how much inspiration Flame Toys seems to have drawn from TF: Animated for this incarnation.
  9. Well, the original Enterprise could cross it, and modern ships are tougher. One might fairly assume that the reapers ALSO have advanced their technology and a barrier engineered to keep them out eons ago might now pose less of an impediment now. Who sets these barriers up, anyways? Cocooning false gods at the core, walling out terminators at the rim?
  10. Obviously they wouldn't cancel a hot title like this that everyone can't stop talking about. It is delayed by the khrona virus.
  11. I grant that making it a name is weird, but I think of the character as "Major Kusanagi" most of the time. In the original comics, brains are one of the few pieces of anatomy that can't really be completely replaced by artificial hardware. Cyberbrains AUGMENT people's wet, meaty OEM CPUs. And friggin' SLAVES indentured servants? In the original, the major shows up with a combat-spec body well before she's ever hired by the government, and I can't see someone as "free-spirited" as her agreeing to sign on with an agency that would literally own her afterwards.
  12. I realize that it is probably accidental continuity, but could these beings be the reason for the galactic barrier that the USS Enterprise(no bloody A, B, C, or D) crossed WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in "Where No Man Has Gone Before"? Usually, yes. But we can always look to "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" and it's bi-color aliens for symbolism and metaphor delivered with all the subtlety of a brick of nitroglycerin to the face.
  13. I am also playing Doom, just like all the other cool kids. (The SC-88 VL just came in yesterday, and prompted some crisis debugging when my DOS box started exhibiting weird behavior, then not POSTing at all. Root cause: sound card wasn't seated firmly. And here I was worrying about a friggin' motherboard failure.)
  14. Nope. In space, there's really no substitute for having more stuff to throw out the back. Throwing it faster helps, but not as much as having twice as much stuff to throw.
  15. No! I need my laughs, now more than ever!
  16. While I'm admittedly here because of Robotech, my ideal Macross DOES exist. The original series is pretty darn good.
  17. I'd watch that too. "Captain, we're being accelerated past warp ten!" "We d*mn well aren't, do you not understand the f*cking concept of infinite speed?"
  18. I've read this fanfic! ... Oh, wait, you're not talking about a fanfic. Never mind.
  19. Speak for yourself. This trainwreck is hilarious.
  20. Oh, the article has all kinds of problems. Just pleased to see someone NOT fawning over Bad Adaptation of Self-Insert Fanfic. (The Yuki avatar goes back to the days of rampant net-wide Haruhi-ism, but I've grown fond of it. )
  21. Remember the omnidirectional barrier incident? Not too hard to imagine an upgraded barrier that allows the excess stored energy to be siphoned off for use in other systems(instead of being released in a devastating unfocused wave).
  22. In fairness, they at least call out Sword Art for sucking. Sort of.
  23. Ohhhhh yeah. Most of Combiner Wars kinda sucked since everything was built around the big, chunky combiner joint('s why I didn't get much of the line, I think Sky Lynx was it). Which, come to think of it, also cut deeply into Hasbro's notoriously tight materials budget(torso's not hollow).
  24. I think part of that was that between Combiner Wars and the line immediately before it, most of the big-name characters already had a very recent toy in the current style. There was little compelling reason to do yet another Bumblebee or Trailbreaker or Mirage at that particular point in time. (While they did an Optimus, it was based on the G2 tanker truck instead of the usual Prime)
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