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    I hope so too. I mean, I'm sure it won't, but I hope. A mercenary corp actually makes sense for anime, though. It makes it much easier to explain why your heroes aren't adhering to a proper military dress code and seem awfully young to be enlisting in the army spacy.
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    Because vehicles get no attention to the underside. They can hid all the garbage down there, who cares? Can't do that with airplanes, so they just shrug their shoulders, go "we have no way to hide things when they can see the underside" and stop trying. I think they are so stuck in the cars mindset that they haven't realized there's OTHER ways to hide things.
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    Not contractually. They haven't signed a document that says "We're never going to use another company's designs without written legal permission". But their own legal department would definitely discourage them using any vehicle they don't have a license for, be it car, boat, or plane. The halcyon days of the 80s where you could make a toy Porsche with a sticker that said "PORCHE", or a video game about an F-14 blowing seven kinds of hell out of everything and never naming it anything other than "jet", and still be totally legit are long gone. Vehicle companies file copyright and trademark claims on the look of their "things that go" nowadays, and it is a bit of a crapshoot if a real vehicle is going to evade any legal challenges. The unlicensed companies already give no craps about any "look and feel" threats, but the standard for airplanes in the converting robots market is so abysmally low(read as "almost exclusively hang-gliding robots") that there's little need to expend the effort as long as the head hides away.
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    Honestly, it is amazing how much just swapping Sonics does for the movie. Once he looks like Sonic instead of what one fan described as "a pervert in a Sonic tracksuit", it is a lot more tolerable. Heck, it even improves some of the friggin' dialog. That "Meow?" joke is stupid as all get-out with the "realistic" Sonic, but I actually laughed with the cartoony Sonic. I think it just because expectations are different for "realistic" characters than cartoony ones. Seconded on fixing Robotnik. Tell the visual effects team to just use models and textures lifted from the games for Sonic(since it clearly worked for "some guy in his spare time", and spend all their budget on making Jim Carrey as round as a beach ball.
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    Doh! I don't even watch much Gundam. Just think it looks better with an e, so my brain keeps editing it in. Not disputing the point, I'm sure you're right. But that is a really annoying addition to the setting, given the TV show has the Macross's bridge crew being horrified at the loss of life and explicitly calling the boats out as not designed to survive in a vacuum. Obviously, the easy answer is just "they were mistaken, and greatly relieved to be so", but... it would've been nice to show it onscreen. (Of course, there's huge differences between designing for airtight underwater and airtight in space, what with the pressure being backwards and all, but overtechnology seals and hulls let you handwave that away easily enough. I mean, more easily than transforming jetplanes and 30-foot humans.) It DOES make the question of Navy versus Spacy ranks more than just academic, though. Though I suppose Global just said "My ship, my rules. You're all drafted into the Spacy, effective immediately." Well, they skipped the chance to take them back the first time the Macross came home. Likely because they were already "destroyed with all hands", combined with dismounting them from the Macross and undoing the modifications being just a tiny bit of a chore. (And then wanting the Macross off the planet ASAP to bait the zentradi away, thanks Kamjin.) Hey, stop injecting reality into my headcanon!
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    I do think there's one additional wrinkle worth noting. The Macross, as seen in SDF Macross, was arguably a multi-service "fleet". Though they were manned by Spacey forces (or civilians trained by Spacey forces) after the fold accident, the Daedalus and Prometheus were not Spacey vessels, they were UN Navy property. I have no idea how this affects anything, particularly as the naval crews of the Daedalus and Prometheus were killed in action after their ships suffered explosive decompression(which is obviously not an emergency naval crews drill for or are equipped to handle). So... questions, and my thoughts. Are the D&P salvage, and property of the Spacey after the Macross reclaims them? Does the Spacey bear a responsibility to return them to the Navy? (Moot point I suppose, but...) Are they simply considered parts of the Macross and no longer actual independent ships? (Presumably not, as the Macross crew refers to them by their independent vessel names, though that may have been a matter of convenience or respect rather than evidence of legal status. ) Do they continue to bear naval designations in memory of their crews, despite being part of a Spacey warship instead of distinct vessels? (I really like this idea, and my personal headcanon now says that after the Macross's "ARMD arms" refit, the Prometheus and Daedalus were rebuilt to their original specifications, returned to seaworthiness, and designated as museum ships. This is obviously not supported by anything anywhere, but it also isn't disproved by anything that I know of.)
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    Rambo 99: Rambo goes to therapy, gets treatment for his PTSD.
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    There's nothing LITTLE about that hunchback.
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    Rambo: Bloodlines. "The Castlevania/Rambo crossover you've been dying to see. Coming soon to a theater near you for an extremely short time."
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    At the time of the Bloodstained kickstarter, Igarashi had no ties to Konami. He quit, likely because Konami didn't want to make games anymore. Same for Inafune and MN9. He quit Capcom because he was sick of fighting to try and get something to happen. His bosses wouldn't let him do anything nice. Shenmue DID strike me as rather dubious. I do feel obliged to note that the game market in general was very different when Bloodstained's campaign started. The Wii U and Vita were viewed as viable gaming platforms, for one. "Indie" games were looked down on, and the console manufacturers were starting to care about them, but they were very much second-class citizens. This is less true now, though the mass-market release was never going to be a sixty-dollar game. Essentially, everyone that "preordered" on Kickstarter placed a forty-dollar preorder and a twenty dollar(or MUCH more, and I salute you three crazy fools that pledged ten grand for a night on the town with Iga) contribution to the development fund. At the time of the Kickstarter, there was never any chance of Bloodstained ever getting a digital disk release. It was going to be download-only outside of the kickstarter. It turns out a lot of things happen when you have five and a half million dollars in outside funding that won't otherwise. (It was also going to be out two years ago, because the goal was a simpler game.) If you want to get mad about exclusive content, consider the folks that pledged for the limited autographed Amano print, They more than tripled the number of autographed prints available after the first ten "sold out". That struck me as dubious for something explicitly advertised as very limited availability I pledged at the hundred-dollar level, incidentally. Aside from backer-exclusive packaging, demo builds, "free" copies of Ritual of the Moon and the swordwhip expansion pack, I also get a keychain, pin, soundtrack CD, "retro cheatbook", and my name in the credits. Those physical objects are never going to be available to non-backers, not even through piracy. I would have been more hesitant to chip in anything, and certainly not as much as I did, were it not for the talent associated with the project.
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    That decision was made by the backers. The overwhelming majority of backers that bothered to respond to the poll thought exclusive content is bullcrap and everyone deserves the swordwhip. (I voted that way, inoidentally) And they've got a pile of those steelbooks available to backers, too. Some people are just never happy.
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    Mine had broken combination joints in the legs, no chrome on the chopper blades, missing fins on the head, no fists... and then the chest unit came apart. I kept the cars and jet. I think I threw the cars out a few years ago. I still have the jet.
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    Your Voltron is mistransformed. You forgot to push the white thrusters into the legs. HELPING! ... Man, I used to have one of those. I miss it.
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    I think of it as two serieses at this point. There's the original film, The Terminator, and all the other films, which are just Terminator with no The. Obviously, Terminator 2 implies something LIKE The Terminator happened, but it equally obviously isn't a direct sequel to The Terminator(John Connor's age isn't even right!) Yes. And it was all because Skynet arranged it. Zor was actually a T-9001 endomorphic cyberorganism.
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    At least put Jim Carrey in a fat suit and refilm his scenes. Skinny Robotnik, WTF?
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    I think it is mostly that Blackarachnia was ALWAYS designed to be sexy, and Arcee wasn't. This take on Arcee is neither toon nor comic accurate. It is what I'm going to call "deviantart accurate".
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    Thanks for asking so I didn't have to, fellow "have better things to do than memorize tvtropes" person.
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    I think it is actually a clone of Picard. Section 31 thought the romulans had a good idea in that last movie, and stole it for themselves.
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    Yeah. The Thronies are in the early stages, where they can be gravely upset by what sounds like their End of the Circle. With Robotech, all you can do is laugh.
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    If we're lucky!
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    Just because it isn't the worst possible thing doesn't mean it isn't still terrible and possibly a betrayal of the fans.
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    In fairness, I just opted for "one of the Sterling girls, because everything in Sentinels revolved around them."
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    Dana or Maya Sterling, I assume.
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    Didn't they also turn around and bring half of it right back in through Rebels?
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    Nope. Just Yui.
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