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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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    When your nation's only viable export is highly-enriched uranium, it is hard to not take it personally when "the man" says you can't sell it to anyone. Personally, I'd've pushed for a compromise position. Get fold drive manufacturing facilities set up on Windermere for the mass production of quartz-based fold drives. The galaxy gets a lot smaller because everyone has low-lag drives, Windermere is readily accessible to the rest of the universe, and they are the center of a thriving next-gen fold drive industry that brings mad bank to the planetary coffers. And the quartz is only exported in small amounts as part of the drives, so the NUN still has proliferation control. Everybody wins... except I think the NUN wanted exclusive control of all technology associated with fold quartz to maintain tactical superiority?
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    That's damning with faint praise. Though I DO want to know how Reguld vs Goldeen turned out. Aren't steel-types weak against water-types?
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    Yeah, fifty bucks for the original Optimus with no trailer is a bit of a joke.
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    Not gonna lie. I genuinely love how the spies are exposed.
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    It takes a brave man to admit he likes Wesley.
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    Oooooh, that's nice.
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    Looks fake to me. Someone who never had a VCR trying to simulate the look of one. Most tellingly, the heavy "shooting star" glitches are a LASERDISC artifact, not a VHS one. Also the trailer has a footnote saying "for promotional use only, not for sale"
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    Well. Apparently, Granzella announced R-Type Final 2 for their April 1st joke. The company is founded by most of irem's former game development staff, and named for an entity in the R-Type universe, so they are not unconnected to the franchise. I'd call this a lazy phone-in, particularly as they already did the same joke back when everyone worked at irem, EXCEPT ... R-Type Final 2 is an actual game in development by Granzella. This is some kind of next-level self-referential metool-joke.
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    I hope it DOES get made. It will be a hilarious trainwreck.
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    You can re-enact that scene in the comics where Shockwave has Optimus's head operational on a stand!
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    All games are 3-button-compatible. Some later games, like Comix Zone(and more famously, Street Fighter II) play better with the full loadout. I suspect the controller change is for nostalgic reasons. The Genesis wasn't super-popular in Japan, and I get the impression most of its sales were later in life. In America, it was kind of a big deal from the first day it did what Nintendon't, so there's a lot of fond memories of the older-style controller. Edit: It may also just be because the japanese prefer smaller controllers, and the one with more buttons is paradoxically smaller.
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    In fairness, so few people saw it that they could probably tell people it was a new release for several years before anyone caught on.
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    I get why they'd do that. In America, the original controller is sort of iconic and fuels a lot more nostalgia. But uuuuuuugh. Especially with Comix Zone in the game list, as that was one of the games designed for the newer pad.
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    Wouldn't He-Man with furries just be Thundercats?
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    I kinda love it.
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    Reminds me of Drift/Peg.
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    I thought part of the point of the original Talosian episode(s) was that they completely gave up on the outside world and basically lived their entire lives in illusory paradises(which destroyed their society). They needed a new population because they were no longer capable of maintaining the physical structures they required to live, but are otherwise completely disinitreseted in the galaxy as a whole. I assumed General Order 7 was meant to avoid people "opting out" of society via psychic illusions as the talosians did, presumably out of a concern that Federation society could suffer a similar collapse. Though the whole nature of the thing is out of step with Star Trek as a whole.
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    Obviously they mean those two points were based on the actual studio models. All the rest of the model is based on fanart and someone's old Playmates toy(not pictured: The underside of the saucer says "KEVIN" in sharpie).
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    That DID make me laugh, so yes.
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    In the context of Bay's Devastator, I can't NOT read that as a reference to his wrecking balls.
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    Wait, Spock's gone to Talos AGAIN? ... Is this before or after doing that earned you a death sentence?
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    I think the SDFN Global was intentionally assigned to a high-risk research fleet in hopes of getting it destroyed so the fleet would be free of the confusion. But oh my god, the fandom freakouts for the week after that episode aired...
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