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    No results found for "mk11 is deader than a door knob". It is near the top of the Steam bestseller list right now, so... that's something.
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    I want a movie-accurate grill sticker. Truck looks better with Thrust's face on it.
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    Yeah. They can be operated by one person... until something breaks or they need refueling.
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    My problem is really mostly about where one finds a starship in servicable condition. I mean, it basically has to be functional already, since a handful of teenagers won't exactly be rebuilding the Enterprise. And few would consider it a good idea to just leave a fully-functional Defiant or Intrepid just laying around without removing the warp core, shields, phasers, and computer, at the minimum. I'd ask where one finds the big pile of antimatter and dilithium you need to make one work, but that's really a question of scale. Civilian space flight is a thing in the setting, after all. Federation starships just need more of it because they're bigger and badder. I'm just going to ignore the "crew size" and "specialized training" issues. God knows previous Treks have had enough trouble with that concept. I'm also just assuming they find a "real" starship with warship armaments and not some boring freighter or oversized shuttle you'd expect to see in civilian service, which would invalidate a lot of questions. It'd actually be kind of cool if they get the Trek equivalent of an old Microbus and restore it before going off on their space road trip.
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    I feel obliged to note that is the modern real world. In the pre-NASA days, every branch of the US armed forces had a space program, with all of them rushing in a competition to be the first with the best so that they would become THE space force. But, of course, the real-world space service seems like a pretty sad joke next to most fictional space forces(unless the air force is hiding an awful lot more under the black bars than we think, and somehow doing it at reasonable costs for once). Just a bunch of boring satellites. Get back to me when they have a manned presence. From a fictional standpoint, the naval force makes the most sense to base your fictional space force off of. Most fictional space forces have space battleships and space carriers and space destroyers. The real navy has pre-existing analogs for all of that and the associated support mechanisms, so no one has to re-invent the wheel. In that regard, it is rather odd that Macross chose to follow army tradition rather than naval or air force. Perhaps the titular ship's roomy interior and large civilian populace made the writers feel they had more leeway to reinvent things. The city especially gives them less of a "carrier life" vibe and more of a "coastal base" one, so the nautical analogy is less useful. ... It is also possible they were just avoiding unwanted comparisons to Star Trek.
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    It sounds all kinds of stupid to me, but I don't have it in me to get mad anymore. I'll just assume the entire series is actually Riker's holodeck simulation.
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    It is that or we watch Shadow Chronicles. And no one deserves that.
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    I haven't seen it*, but... you'd have to dig PRETTY HARD to find the worst Star Wars anything. I'm not even convinced the infamous holiday special is the worst Star Wars anything. *Not because of any press it received. I was thoroughly unimpressed with The Force Awakens, did some thinking, and decided I didn't want to invest myself in another bad Star Wars trilogy. I realized I don't HAVE to watch a movie just because it is called Star Wars. It was liberating.
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    I thought it failed because we were trash-talking it without backing at the "enemy spy" level.
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    Hooray! I wvs gonna link it if you hadn't, because that trainwreck was hilarious.
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    In fairness, while JC Staff is no Madhouse, they do seem to be striving for a bit higher quality than they usually do. I think they're stretching so they don't look as bad by comparison. Story-wise, this is an arc that a lot of people were disappointed Madhouse didn't get to on their run. Personally, I don't really like it as much as I did the Sea King and alien invasion arcs. Not saying it is bad, though.
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    I think that's what I'm thinking of. If I recall, the extra junk was cut&pasted off of something from Gundam 00.
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    By which you mean "made of parts imported from Gundam CG models"?
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    Maybe it unlocks both!
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    And that doesn't even require a lot of revising of history. Pretty sure that SDF showed Destroids messing up streets on more than one occasion, making it rather clear they are not really a good choice for infrastructure preservation in an urban environment. Heck, the Monster is even shown wrecking up the deck of the HANGER THEY PARK IT IN as it stomps out before the final battle in episode 27(an event which is all kinds of illogical, but also OH SO COOL). You definitely don't want one of those bad boys clomping along on your sidewalks and cutting through your parks. It really puts the occasional dog turd in a new light.
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    Honestly, if I can be allowed to nerd out, I think they've confused the interlace toggle with mode 7. Or conflated them. Interlace mode DOES double the vertical resolution and halve the frame rate. But it has nothing to do with mode 7 except that it can be enabled in that mode(as well as in modes 0-6) if the program commands it(few do). Also possible they confused the high-res feature, which doubles the HORIZONTAL resolution. That would make them completely wrong since high-res is modes 5 and 6. System behavior also implies interlace is only MEANT to be enabled in modes 5 and 6. The biggest ACTUAL limitation of mode 7 is that it can only operate on one BG layer, and all other layers are disabled for any line drawn in mode 7. (That's why the status bar disappears during the fight with King Koopa in Mario World, incidentally. It lets him fly into the top of the screen.) Edit: Alternatively, I may be reading that backwards and they're saying that BG mode 7 was ugly to keep the frame rate up. Which is... well, completely untrue. The transformations are very rapid due to a significant amount of fixed-function hardware being thrown at the task. The Super Nintendo dedicates an appreciable portion of the PPUs specifically to manipulating mode 7 objects, hardware that sits idle in ALL OTHER MODES because it is useless. Mode 7 is ugly because it is a 1024x1024 bitmap being manipulated for display through a 256x224 view window using low-cost late 80s silicon. They COULD have put in a TMS34010 in the system and gotten higher-quality output(and a much more versatile VDP), but it would've raised the price point significantly, as would including the RAM needed to use a higher-resolution bitmap(and they actually shipped the Super Nintendo with half the RAM it was designed for due to cost).
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    As long as it is a guilty pleasure. Personally, I think Enterprise as a whole is better than Voyager, but that's damning with faint praise.
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    Total boner-killers, which is usually the opposite of what you want in a porn scene.
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    I remain surprised that byuu's intending to integrate it into mainline bsnes. ... And remain unsurprised by gizmodo's incompetent writing. Mode 7 was a hack that reduced the frame rate? Really?
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    Oh. Oh wow. I'd missed that part of the long-running trainwreck.
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    Well-played.
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    Fair enough. Well, I meant in terms of damage control. "Hey, this is Kirk. Did you guys know you can reverse time just by flying near a star?" "Stop breaking causality! If you tell anyone at all about this we're ending your great-grandfather!"
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    Eh, they lifted the idea from Trials and Tribble-ations anyways. ... Actually, one wonders what they DO about things like the slingshot maneuver and the Guardian of Forever. Kirk found a lot of ways to make time travel EASY.
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    I'm usually a dirty toy supremacist, but I kinda like Swoop being diffrent-colored. He already doesn't match the other four because of his thin lanky build in a team of bulky, brutish brawlers. (That and not turning into a dinosaur. :P )
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