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  1. JB0
    To say nothing of Kirk's escapades. One assumes Janeway had someone who was aggressively unfond of her role in history, to get the kind of hands-on attention she recieved.
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    Hey, Kakizaki's a pretty likable guy. Though I strongly suspect he was voted in as a joke, and people underestimated how little love Hikaru was gonna get.
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    That was fast. ... I once again wonder at the point of preorders if it isn't to figure out how many copies need to be made to meet demand.
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    I've got one thing to say to that: BOMBAAA!!
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    He must buy the "vulcans don't have emotions" bs they're always spouting. Quinto did his research, and understood that vulcans in general, and Spock in specific, have powerful motions beneath the surface that they keep in check with will. Still waters run deep, as they say.
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    That's fair. I feel like it is really good at the concept and outline stages, but Nasu isn't a great writer and desperately needed an editor. The /stay night animes are stuck because of it. And then there's the wall of stuff that just uses the name on something unrelated.
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    And I still am.
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    " in spite of broadcast guidelines explicitly prohibiting them from airing it " Good way to make sure your show is cancelled midway and your company shut down when it can't pay the fines.
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    So you're saying that broadcast anime needs to have explicit bangin' illustrated, in spite of broadcast guidelines explicitly prohibiting them from airing it? Because I honestly enumerated every "adult" scene in the original game, as well as all the racy content ADDED by the animation studio. (Also, both sex scenes in the Fate route are terribly written and incredibly unsexy, and the story is better for their omission.)
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    So you're saying that there's a new Mortal Kombat game, and it doesn't have full-frontal nudity? ... I must be seriously be out of the loop, because I don't recall ANY Mortal Kombat having full frontal nudity.
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    Not really 'nuff said, because I have zero idea what you're talking about.
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    Fate/Stay Night isn't actually that racy. The first anime omitted one sex scene, rewrote a second one completely, omitted one bath scene, and added a few episodes of Sakura wearing a dominatrix outfit.
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    In fairness, I've heard Titanfall 2 was a fantastic single-player game.
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    Oh. I was about to append "Alpha II Turbo" to the name on the assumption it was a joke and nothing that torturous could possibly be a real name outside of Capcom.
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    So holdin' out for an Aristocats remake?
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    That's the other reason people avoid the term "bootleg" for those products. It has an implication of cheap copies of the original toys. I get wanting to draw that distinction between these original, typically high-end products and conventional bootlegs, but "third party" conveys an air of legitimacy that isn't really there. It is also a phrase the manufacturers themselves don't typically use, as they want very much to avoid anyone's legal department taking offense. They sometimes go to great lengths to pretend their toy is a completely original idea instead of an "homage" to an existing work(I know of one company that actually writes their own fiction, published in pack-in comic books, presumably to further this illusion). ... Well, it is still better than the video game market, where people call them "reproductions", even when they are using fan translations or betas that never actually HAD a cartridge release to reproduce.
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    Odd, I thought Super R-Type had a reputation for being exceptionally hard. I know they removed the mid-stage and boss checkpoints so any death sends you back to the start of the stage. Yep! It is pretty cool. I also love how it lifts the mechanical "pincers" from the R-Type stage 1 map and makes them actually move. There's bootlegs of just about everything, really. Especially games that command unusually high prices. It is an exceptionally large problem with GameBoy Advance games, but it hits a lot of systems. One of the TurboCD games(Sapphire, I believe) was rather infamous for it. The bootlegs were very good reproductions, so it was hard to tell they weren't from the original production run unless you knew what you were looking for(slight color differences in the packaging, mostly). To make matters worse, the original game was pretty scarce, so you were far more likely to find a bootleg masquerading as an original copy. It got to be enough of a problem that someone set up a page dedicated to demonstrating the differences.
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    That is where the /hate part of pretty much any R-Type game kicks in for me. The first few stages are good fun, and after that it is increasingly just memorizing where you died so you can avoid it the next time. ... Still better than Gradius, though.
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    The only 100% true statement about Macross canon is that it exists. ... Well, 70% true, anyways.
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    I would certainly not mind a cart of Gley Lancer. Moreso if they licensed the MIJET translation as well as the game itself. Even more still if they added code to let you change satellite AI without a continue. Some AIs are completely unusable in some stages.
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    Personally, I like R-Type 3 and Δ best. Though all eventually run into my love/hate relationship with the series, where past a certain point the only way to progress is to already know what is going to happen.
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    If I recall, arms dealer guy is wildly wrong on almost all counts, and has a version of events that violates all known canon for every installment of the franchise.
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    For the franchise as a whole, your statement is perhaps accurate*. But "always has been" is untrue. If I had to declare the original show to be ONE thing, I'd call it a coming-of-age story rather than a romance or war story. It is mostly about Hikaru's transition from boy to man. Even the romance reflects that, as his interest gradually shifts from the fun and childish female to the mature and stable one. But I'd actually call the music in SDF a detail rather than a driving force. It is of little consequence that Minmay's primary talent is singing, just that she becomes famous. The space war, by contrast, directly informs large portions of story and character progression. If Minmay were an actress or a fashion model, SDF Macross would not be changed significantly. If there was no space war, it would be fundamentally and profoundly different. *And that focus shifted very rapidly. DYRL begins with a mature and confident Hikaru, and wildly elevates the importance of music. Much of what follows owes more to the movie than to the original TV series.
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    Two weeks later, I still love how that was announced. ... I also hope R-Type Final 2 isn't the final name. Because seriously, it is a terrible title.
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    Me too. Could even use the toy-style face to differentiate it from a "real" Windcharger on the shelf. I think the toy face would work great for a KITT head, if you paint the optics visor with red segments.
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