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    Speaker pod gamma was the best thing in 7, after the soundtrack and Fleet of the Strongest Women.
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    I think Gepelnitch may have set some kind of record in the tall-pointy-hat department.
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    Me too.
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    Abundance is a very good reason. You can always get more hydrogen, other fuels aren't so readily available in deep space. But simplicity is also a good reason. Hydrogen fuses easily and releases a lot of energy per atom. One assumes there's still some energy cost associated with initiating the reactions(otherwise you just gave thermodynamics the finger and created a perpetual motion machine), so easily-fused materials are going to be preferable because they cost less to fuse while giving you more back. Just because you CAN fuse anything you want doesn't mean you SHOULD. Iron fusion, for example, is an endothermic reaction. Not what you want at all if you're trying to generate power(but exactly what you want if you're trying to make a star explode). That said, they could spike their fuel with lithium for a nice performance boost. But lithium is harder to come by, especially in deep space. ... That'd be a fun wrinkle in the setting, if the special forces Valks had a lithium tank for enhanced performance.
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    Well, the fusion reactors need something to fuse. There's also the need to fill air tanks for life support. Canonically, I believe they use the fusion reaction byproducts for reaction mass in space, and superheat the air in atmospheric flight(much the same way a modern jet engine does, albeit through different mechanisms). The fusion reactors use cryogenic hydrogen, if I recall. There's a number of reasons you wouldn't want to leave that in the tanks during downtime, most related to hydrogen being kind of explosive in an atmosphere with oxygen and wanting to be a gas at anything more than a handful of degrees above absolute zero.
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    I don't get WHY Wild Arms is there, but I'd argue it is a much better game than Legend of Dragoon. Personally, I'd slot in Star Ocean 2. Diffrent flavor of RPG than FF7, without the dated presentation of Wild Arms.
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    In fairness, the Nintendo wasn't as early in the evolution of sprites as the PS was in the evolution of polygons.
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    So... none legally, but all in practice.
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    "Relive the moments that changed gaming forever, with ... 20 of the best games from the original PlayStation console, including ... Wild Arms." Okay, seriously. I like Wild Arms, but it isn't one of the system's best titles, and it definitely wasn't anything close to revolutionary.
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    That sound you hear is me sobbing uncontrollably.
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    I don't think it has even ONE micromissile cluster launcher. Never gonna stop a zentradi attack that way. It is like they never even WATCHED Macross before they designed this thing.
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    Then the Navy isn't trying hard enough. That's a hard cap of 21 missiles. Barely enough for one shot.
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    In seriousness, I remember not liking the YF-19 when Plus was the big thing because it was a relatively complex transformation that didn't even clean up particularly well in the end, with wings just left dangling off the thighs like someone forgot a step or two. ... Yeah, in hindsight, the -19 is an elegant masterpiece of grace and simplicity.
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    Quoted out of context for obvious reasons.
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    Character merchandise. Figures, to be blunt. Every member of Walkure was seemingly designed first and foremost to check a specific interest off the list. No matter your tastes, there's some shelfcandy for you(unless you don't want plastic girls on your shelves at all). And then there's the Aerial Knights for the ladies to ogle.
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    There are legends of one that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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    Hailey's comet orbits the sun. It is just a highly eccentric orbit. At the farthest, it is 35 AU out. Which means it gets a little farther out than Neptune, but not as far as Pluto. Due to the eccentricity of the orbit, velocity changes a good deal, from around 1 km/s at aphelion to over 100 km/s when it is closest to the Sun.
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    Much like Isamu, court-martialing Millard would be politically problematic. By ordering Guld to follow Isamu to Earth, he wound up being involved in what accidentally became a heroic rescue of the homeworld from an insane brainwash-happy AI. Can't court-martial that. I would assume he was quietly encouraged to retire, so they had an open desk to chain Isamu to once they promoted him out of a cockpit.
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    Sorry, I was being flippantly sarcastic. Basara does get character development, it is just subtle(the only subtle thing about him).
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    They will shout "LISTEN TO MY SONG" and start shooting people with boomboxes while singing.
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    Honestly, in some respects Plus is the most Macrossy Macross since the original. I think it is the only other Macross with characters that feel like real people to me. Not GOOD people, but real ones. I think most of us know an Isamu that never grew up and treats everything like a game, a Myung that gave up on their dreams and is hopelessly lost in life, or a Guld that takes everything too seriously, blames others for his failings, and acts like a colossal prick if you aren't as uptight as him. ... And then the robot brainwashes the Earth and Peter Pan has to kamikaze the Pentagon.
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    Sci-fi motorcycles: Yeah, they all look suspiciously similar.
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    I remember realizing how dumb the AI was, and then I abused it to keep a soldier walking around a single crate for a half-hour following footprints in the snow as I walked right behind him. Then I got bored and tapped him on the shoulder. Tapped him on the shoulder TO DEATH.
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    It is a pretty well-regarded title, and it isn't among the most common Genesis games. Bad combination if you want to get it for a decent price. Oh, don't even get me started on Treasure fans. I've never played Radiant Silvergun, but I've played Ikaruga( “Our frothing demand for this game increases!"), which is supposed to be a "spiritual successor"(and was "Project RS2" in development), and... it is kinda crappy. Pretty crap, but still just a boring memorization game. I remain convinced that most of the attention it got is just because it was a high-profile scrolling shooter at a time when there weren't a lot of scrolling shooters coming out. The standout Dreamcast shooter was Mars Matrix, but it wasn't from Treasure so it got ignored. </controversial_opinions_2>
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    What the crap! Definitely done by someone that doesn't understand the blue bomber.
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