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    It is definitely an extreme reaction, and one that requires a bit of development. But on the other hand, they DO reduce a life-bearing planet to a cratered rock just to make a point when they have Kakizaki, Misa, and Hikaru captured. Dropping the entire fleet in is probably a case of "We want everything turned into glass, then the glass reduced to rubble. And then we want the rubble turned into dust, and then we want the dust turned back into glass. Just in case." Overkill in the extreme, but... sometimes you want to make sure the target is really dead Given at that point in the story, the zentradi had a major subfleet led by an experienced and trusted officer defecting to the enemy, and soldiers mutinying to overthrow the entire zentradi way of life... it was starting to seem like these puny earthlings with their antiquated toys and stolen gunship WERE an unfathomably deep threat to the zentradi, and invoking the Ripley protocol on the earthlings and everyone they'd been in contact with seemed like a good idea. Should the zentradi find Earth again, things will likely escalate faster, as at least some of the events leading up to the Bodol fleet's dissolution are known to other fleets.
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    Anyone on Earth is still going to have a very bad day when enough space pickles defold to blot out the sky, and lasers start flying in from literally every direction. Earth is exceptionally well-defended, but I don't think they can take out five million ships before someone starts firing. The zentradi will take an awful lot of casualties, but it'd still be a good day to be on a vacation to Eden. Or Zola. Or pretty much anywhere else.
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    Yeah, mine had that issue. I was going to chalk it up to poor part tolerances, but then I saw something about the little swingbars. Reversing them made a world of diffrence, even though it doesn't look like it should.
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    Not readily. It is something I remember hearing the last time that missile rack came up. ... Which means my source is somewhere on the forum, but good luck finding it. LIGHT THE SETO SIGNAL!
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    Out of continuity, it isn't an animation error. It is the CORRECTION of an animation error. As I understand things, the episode was initially animated with the Valkyrie one-shotting a ship with a giant beam attack, Gamlin-style. But the VF-1 doesn't HAVE a giant beam attack. They didn't have time to fully rework the scene before airing, so they drew a bunch of missiles onto the tail fins so it could feasibly take down the ship on its own WITHOUT a giant laser beam. Replace the beam layer in the shot with a missile-swarm layer, and the ship is dead without any canon-defying cannonfire. In-continuty? Duck-tape mod. UN Spacey likes to pretend that never happened.
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    The PSP remake, Dracula X Chronicles, actually contained the original Rondo of Blood as a special feature(I believe it had to be unlocked). Also a port of Symphony of the Night(true port, rather than the PS1 emulation that was available as a standalone download). I'd wager Symphony is based on the 360 port rather than an emulation of the PS1 version. Easier to support modern features like achievements, don't have to worry about the slow-witted being confused by references to memory cards, and Maria mode comes in. Emulating the Saturn version gets you Maria mode and removes memory card references, but adds a controller mismatch and it is harder to do than PS1 emulation.
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    In non-Masterpiece news, my Primes Punch & Counterpunch came in today. I think they could've done more with the legs, but all in all, they did a pretty good job. He even has a tab on the underside of his car mode to latch his (single) gun to for storage. And the clear window pieces for the car mode are JUST the windows. The blue frames and panels are actually separate pieces of plastic, not painted. Either they learned from Primes Jazz, or they took just advantage of this being sold at a high price for the size. Since he has to be "prime armor" compatible because that's the current line's entire gimmick, there's little folding plates under his faction symbols. When he's in Punch mode, you can fold down the decepticon logo on his back so it isn't showing, and reverse for Counterpunch's autobot logo. After three decades, they figured out a way to protect his cover from people walking behind him! ... Yes, he does come with a combiner fist. No, he doesn't turn into a limb. You may roll your eyes at Hasbro now. The only thing I REALLY wish they'd done differently... If his gun was larger, the "prime armor" fist could clip onto the gun, enabling him to have different guns for the different robot modes without actually packing a second weapon in. Similar to Classics Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, where the parts that became Sunstreaker's jetpack could fold over Sideswipe's gun. Sadly, Hasbro's engineers either didn't think of it, or couldn't fit a larger gun mold into the budget. And in a case of absolutely hilarious car-cabin crowding, the false windshield that makes up Counterpunch's chest is pressed right against the car mode's windshield.
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    I agree with every word here. But not gonna lie, it is hard to keep my inner child quiet when I see all those real Transformer designs moving around.
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    I think the excuse was supposed to be that his voicebox wasn't repaired WELL, and he CAN speak but it is painful so he uses the radio instead. But no, it was dumb from the start.
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    Makes sense. The galaxy is a dangerous place, and more than one fleet has stumbled into something stupidly dangerous. And probably even more fleets than that have missed something important along the way because of the hopscotch nature of space folds. Both really good reasons to be dropping your escorts over everything you can. WHAT?! How did ANYONE think that was a good idea?
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    What am I looking at here? All I see is stars.
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    I disagree. They'd still be craptastic, but they'd be slightly less so with better character design.
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    Surely the first image should be the cartoon, with THEN. The second one should be NOW, and the third one should be THEN AGAIN
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    I know the term, it just isn't intuitive to me. And unexpected in this context. I might would've connected it without the capital S, but... that's a big maybe.
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    Such a crazy idea, right?
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    Oh! I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if Spectrum was an anime battleship I should recognize or if the show was actually about old british computers.
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    https://www.unilad.co.uk/gaming/red-dead-redemption-2-will-have-realistic-horse-testicle-physics/ I'm just gonna drop this here. Someone at Rockstar was either hazing the new guy, or likes horses a little too much.
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    I thought it was Rodimus and Blaster.
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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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