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    Oh man, he wasn't even that old. What a bummer. I never got into the Hulk's solo adventures, but I was a fan of his Star Trek: New Frontier series.
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    Sources tell me that Silverbolt arrived at port in the States in... I can't remember if it was late February or early March. Before the Trypticon reissue, in any case, which you might have noticed is in stock at both Pulse and Gamestop. I'm not saying that the issue is definitely tariffs, but it's definitely not a factory issue. Silverbolt left the factory, sailed across the ocean, and made it to the States. Whether they're now sitting in a container on a ship/at port that hasn't been unloaded or sitting in some Hasbro warehouse waiting for distribution I couldn't say, but the kink is definitely somewhere between arrival in the US and distribution to retailers.
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    Not bad. A little taller, but I have the DNA kit on my Menasor anyway. Here's hoping DNA does something for Superion. And that Hasbro actually releases Silverbolt in the States. Lots of people have him in hand overseas now, but Amazon moved my estimated delivery date from April to November.😒
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    Should run fine even on Switch. I have the graphics settings maxed and I'm still getting 60fps at 1080p on the 17w setting on my ROG Ally X. With the default settings, the game has a 60fps limit turned on. I'll try later with the frame limit off, on both the 12w and 17w settings (though, even at 25w, the Ally X lasts me just over 90 minutes, which is enough to get through my kid's dance classes). With the frame limit turned off and maxed at 1440p on my desktop I'm getting 400-600fps... my monitor is only 240hz.🤯
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    Bought. Great timing, too, I just finished AC Shadows on Monday and the Oblivion Remaster today.
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    Might have to pick that up. I've noticed that, despite having like eight different streaming services, they seem to be pushing original and more recent content (no matter how banal) over older quality content. I just checked, can't steam Knight Rider. And this is less than a week after I was looking for Battlestar Galactica and finishing that I couldn't stream it, either.
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    Mixmaster
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    I'm always up for more space Winnebagos.
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    So, yeah, way more powerful than the Switch 1, but after 8 years so is your phone (probably). The takeaway I was reading somewhere else was that there's a bigger gap between docked and handheld performance on the Switch 2 than the original. Which makes sense; the Switch was 720p handled and 1080p docked, the Switch 2 is 1080p handled and 4k docked. Going from 720 to 1080p is just over doubling the pixels, but going from 1080p to 4K is quadrupling.
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    A Gigil-Elgerzorne-Megatron combo. Instead of a trailer he could come with a ball that has a little Sivil-Starscream inside to sing "Power to the Dream" at.
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    It's nuts how last year it seemed like a struggle to find something to play but this year I've got Clair Obscure, Atomfall, and now Doom just waiting for me to finish AC Shadows and the Oblivion Remaster.
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    Compared to Star Wars, sure. But, as terrible as they were, the Transformers movies were were huge, and I'm fairly confident that even in Japan Transformers is much bigger than Macross. This pretty much sums why I think the crossover is for Transformers fans first and Macross fans second. Macross fans already had the cool transforming planes, this is taking over of those planes and slapping a recognizable face on it for the Transformers crowd.
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    Who's cashing in on who, though? I haven't seen a ton of evidence that Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Star Wars, etc fans who weren't already into Transformers bought into those crossovers. Seems to me to be more there other way around, selling Transformers fans on franchises they might not normally collect. Arguably even moreso for Macross; I think mashing iconic vehicles with a franchise about vehicles turning into robots from the same period probably has more crossover appeal than taking the transforming jet from a show and making it transform into a robot from a different show that people might recognize as the one that turns into a truck. Actually, based on the demographic data of that poll, the people must likely to buy into a Macross crossover are exactly us- men at just the right age to already be fans of both franchises. It doesn't make any less sense to me than an Optimus/Basara/Fire Valk, aside from the fact that Basara is associated with a mecha more than Sheryl. To be clear, though, I'm not saying Takara needed to make a Sheryl/Bumblebee/YF-29, though. All I'm saying is that just like they didn't use the most popular character, mecha, or Macross series for the Macross crossover they also don't need to use Optimus for every crossover every time either.
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    But that cuts both ways. Like, Optimus is THE guy when it comes to Transformers, sure, but guys like Bumblebee and Megatron, and maybe Grimlock and Starscream to a lesser extent, are still pretty well know. Are we really going to argue that Basara/the Fire Valkyrie is THE face of Macross? In the All Macross Big Voting poll in 2019 Macross Frontier was voted as the most popular production, Sheryl Nome was voted as the most popular character, the YF-19 was voted as the most popular mecha. Assuming we want to stick with Frontier, then, the YF-29 ranked higher than the Fire Valkyrie on the mecha side. But, just like I think Bumblebee or someone is popular enough on the Transformers side, Basara/The Fire Valk is popular enough (Basara was the second most popular character after Sheryl, the Fire Valk was the 4th most popular mecha after the YF-19, VF-19S, and YF-29, and Macross 7 was the third most popular production after Macross Frontier and Do You Remember Love. I guess all I'm saying is that, yes, if you're not doing original characters then it makes sense to mash up the popular ones. But it doesn't have to be the same single popular guy every time.
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    Probably because, aside from some red on the arms and the pelvis (which are still not so overtly Optimus that they couldn't be just about anybody) the only real element of Optimus is the head. Shoulda made the Shield Liger into Rampage or Razorclaw, if not a entirely new character...
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    Everything needs to be Optimus! Here's Transformers x Diaclone x Zoids Shield-D Prime. Plus they're apparently working on another Evangelion collab. Folks are speculating that this one could be a retool of Legendary Optimus (an upscaled redeco of Evasion Mode Optimus).
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    I wish I knew. I mean, you can see that the stage definitely has wheels and looks like it folds up into a trailer. But I don't see any wheels on Basara Prime. He does have the truck window chest instead of the normal Fire Valkyrie chest, though... maybe Basara Prime can cube up, chest out? Then maybe connect to the overhang on the back of the stage?
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    Delayed until next summer. Jet mode actually looks good (at least from the top. Bot mode is... well, it's a mix of the Fire Valk and Optimus Prime. What's interesting is that it's got a stage that appears to turn into a trailer. Secret truck mode?
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    Ghost Rider.
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    I mean, Nick Cage and Spider-Man Noir are cool, but I'm keeping my expectations low. They may be pumping up Amazon's involvement, but this is still a Sony thing, just like Venom, Morbius, Kraven, Madame Web, and the unreleased-but-apparently-still-coming Silk: Spider Society.
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    Well... I'm enjoying my Porsche, and my wife still has a little over a year left on her Kia's lease. But I'm becoming sorely tempted to buy a Dodge Charger Daytona as a spare (wife can drive it sometimes to keep the mileage down on her lease, I can drive it sometimes when the weather gets kind of crappy and I'd prefer a heavier car with AWD). I'd been curious about them since they first came out (how do you get an EV to behave like a pony car?), but with a price in "gently used" Taycan territory I'd rather go German. Dealerships keep dropping the prices, though, and now I have a dealership offering to sell me an R/T (bummer, no scat pack) for $35k. That's just over half the MSRP. And a third car would come in handy right now... my wife's EV9 has been in the shop since Easter due to a BMS issue. Normally I think they're just supposed to replace a fuse and the 12v battery, but Kia wants the dealer to replace the main battery too. Took a week and half to even get them to give us a loaner, and my wife's mad that the loaner is a base-model ICE Sportage. She misses the bells and whistles on her GT-Line trim, not to mention her 75-mile round-trip commute is the reason we started buying electric cars in the first place.
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    Possibly. Battery life is a big factor; I can't go back to the battery life if the Ally after upgrading to the Ally X. Price is a concern, too. I mean, I can only speculate until it's officially announced, but I feel like the Ally 2 would be more expensive than the Ally X even before tariffs are factored in. And finally, performance. If the Ally 2 is an incremental upgrade I'll probably pass. I can't realistically upgrade to a new handheld every year for a few extra fps on low settings. Z2 Extreme would need to be a pretty major upgrade to tempt me (pretty sure Aerith isn't).
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    I upgraded from the original Ally to the Ally X during a black friday sale. The slight performance bump due to more RAM and the being clocked slightly higher at each power level was nice, but the bigger battery and second USB port were what made all the difference. The battery on the Ally X is big enough that I can play on the 25w profile for a solid hour and a half while my daughter's in her Monday dance classes, and the second USB port means I can use my Viture glasses while the Ally X is plugged in. I see that the black Ally 2 has two USB ports, which is great, but if the battery life is worse than the Ally X that could be a non-starter for me.
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    It better be. The Ally X already is. That said, as developers start making ray tracing mandatory the Ally and Ally X are struggling. I can barely get 30fps in AC Shadows with everything on low settings and some pretty aggressive upscaling. The flip side, though, is that with the tariffs and what not I'm feeling like the Ally 2 is going to cost more than $1000, leaving plenty of room for the Steam Deck to sell to people who just don't want to pay that much for a handheld.
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    I've played the original, and I can't say I cared for it much. But one of my close friends is a hardcore Sega fan; he'll probably be stoked to hear about this.
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