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    Voltron I. Voltron II was Albegas. ... Hey, I'm just the messenger. Take it up with Matchbox. (That Voltron III wound up essentially BEING the franchise is a fact of some amusement to me.)
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    He's already on record as saying Rise of Skywalker is "Great... because I didn't make it so they'll blame someone else!"
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    At last, a bright spot!
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    It survived Phantom Menace, it can survive this.
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    Youtube: A bigger mess than Star Wars, somehow.
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    Oh geez. I mean, I guess it is better that Google auto-flags videos as for children than NOT for children, given the financial liability, but... darned if they don't need something better than "here's yet another inscrutable secret algorithm to screw you over, thanks for contributing your unpaid time to making us billions, see you in banklruptcy"
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    I've seen something about this, from EEVBlog. Most folks on YouTube make money from ads, not your bank account. Google prefers to serve targeted ads, because they are worth much more. Under federal law, it isn't legal to track children online, which makes targeting ads to them harder. Google was recently fined quite a bit for tracking children online, because of course they were. They settled with the FTC. Here's where things get fun. In 2013, the US government recently strengthened the rules about tracking children. Not just the platforms, but individual content providers, can be held responsible for not tracking children. And what constitutes tracking has been expanded from "actively collecting information" to "deploying tracking cookies". Having been fined, Google's reworked things so Youtube now requires content providers to specify if content is meant for children. If you say yes, you get ads that don't use user tracking for demographics targeting, which are worth a lot less. As part of the settlement, Google gets to claim they did due diligence and the FTC will now fine the video uploader instead of Google. If the FTC decides, in their sole discretion, that the uploader lied(which they could easily do accidentally, given the vague standard the FTC lays out), they can be fined 42 grand per offending video. That is not much money to Google, but it is a life-altering sum for most of Google's unpaid videographers. In short, if the videographer checks yes, they lose 90% of their ad revenue. If they check no and the feds decide they were wrong, they are fined several thousands of dollars. THAT is what Doomcock is on about.
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    Mostly Sad Dana, it looks like.
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    They were definitely right to change those two. And I don't think they were bad toys, but they were bad for the sentient humanoid robot angle that Transformers took them in. But some animation models drift far from the toy for no discernable reason, and honestly I'm surprised to see so many obvious toy details in this one(the screw holes in his toes are charming).
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    Seems the most likely answer to me.
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    I'm gonna say one way is objectively right, and it is to mostly ignore the animation model because it is freaking hideous. I can't really push my toy supremacy angle here, because that isn't a lot better, but... that animation model should only be used as inspiration, not the goal. Tangentally, the animation model was clearly based on a Wildrider toy with no stickers. Most obvious with the visible screws in his toes. But hey. At least it was based on the toy it was supposed to represent, unlike SOME characters. *cough*Ratchet and Ironhide*cough*
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    Look on the bright side: At least the "kids in school doing things kids do in school" genre died.
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    CARL'S VISION! HOW DARE WE MOCK IT! Still ridin' that coffin are we, HG? Also, poor Dana's realized exactly the quality of work she's haruhi'ed herself into. Seriously, they used that face six times I think? Ironically, this trash actually looks mildly interesting now, just by virtue of being something other than a desperate Macross clone with the serial numbers filed off, and I'm startled at the boldness in giving the lead to a "Masters Saga" character, and then acknowledging that she's in a really messed-up situation right now. I actually find myself genuinely interested in The Epic Saga Of Sad Dana, though I have no doubt that the comic will only disappoint if I pick it up. And it looks like they're pivoting straight into "attack of the thirty-foot zombies", so ... nope. And not gonna lie here... this feels like a legitimate Millia parental lesson(except for the fact that she was a terrible spy, too), and it makes me smile.
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    Sonic improvements aside, I like the inclusion of some Green Hill Zone footage, actually. (Reminds me of the He-Man movie, which was apparently intended to take place entirely on Earth until the director put his foot down and insisted they had to book-end it with scenes in Eternia.) Sonic also shows a lot more personality here, and... oh yeah, Gangster's Paradise is gone(why was it ever there?). The new trailer looks like it is more a Street Fighter movie than a Super Mario Brothers movie. I mean, the old one was still on this side of the Super Mario line, but it was close. On the other hand... I'm sure they haven't spent all this time shooting new footage based on a script rewrite, so it'll be down to editing and CG changes. Maybe some overdubbing. They can't completely rework a fundamentally misguided project this late.
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    Man, Jim Carrey is one of the PROBLEMS. Doctor Robotnik is shaped like a beachball, Carrey's a beanpole, and the studio didn't spring for a fat suit or even throw a CG stretch filter onto him.
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    /me laughs I know how that goes all too well.
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    No, that was the Wii. The Wii U is like, 3¼ 'Cubes. Maybe even 3½ :P (I DO own a Wii U, actually. 'S a cute little booger, albeit not the most useful platform.)
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    I just rewatched Street Fighter for similar reasons. At the time, I was taking this all too seriously.
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    Great minds think alike. I regret remembering any part of that movie, really. But we all have our cross to bear.
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    Is the GameCube "retro" yet? Because I just fused two GameCubes together. I had a working silver one with no digital AV port, and a black one with a bad drive but a DAV port and matching GameBoy Player. Twenty minutes later, I'd moved the drive from the silver one to the black one. So I now have a black GameCube with GBPlayer, Digital AV port, and third-party component video cables. I feel bizarrely satisfied with myself for what was only slightly harder than swapping game cartridges. Incidentally, removing the DAV port was NOT the only cost savings on the revised model 'Cubes. The space freed up by removing the port let them use cheaper capacitors than the tiny ones on the original board, they rerouted power to save about two inches of wire, there's the removal of a cut, fold, and polish step on the RF shield(since they don't need to open a hole for the DAV port, and in fact needed to NOT open that hole), and they changed the sticker on the bottom of the case to say "Made in China" instead of "Made in Japan".
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    Wasn't that how Nemesis ended?
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    As long as you're okay with being wrong. Seriously, that mostly just means you like action better than horror.
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    We'll have to get tarred together.
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    It isn't a popular opinion by any means. It is just the RIGHT opinion. ... I used to hate Terminator 2, actually. I've made my peace with it. The film has plot holes big enough to drive a truck through, but no one cares because they DO drive a truck through them. And then they blow it up. And then they do it again a half-hour later. It is a heckuva spectacle. I suspect I might have different opinions if I'd seen Terminator 2 first(as many did, based on theatrical run profits in a pre-VCR era). We had a taped-off-TV copy of The Terminator when I was younger, and no copy of Terminator 2. So I watched the original several times before I ever saw the second one, which was... startlingly different, and not really meant for someone who'd darn near memorized the first film(well, the parts that hadn't been edited out).
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    IMO, there should be no sequels at all. While Terminator 2 was a good movie, it was a bad sequel. And if we need more controversial statements... The Terminator was a perfect film and no possible followup could do anything but lessen it.
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