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    AFAIK the MK franchise has never been legal to sell in Japan due to it's depictions of gore, evisceration and the like, so I'd agree NRS doesn't care about any Japanese further regulations on nudity. A segment of the gaming audience seems to have taken offense to at least one of the character's endings as it deals with the topic of racial relations. They seem to interpret it and the mentioned visual changes regarding the appearance of female characters as part of a trend towards "wokeness" in society and take exception to it. Perhaps fenrir27 ranks among their number.
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    Um, well considering the last version, MKX sold 10 million units over its life, I'd say it's a bit early to call it tanking. As a genre, fighting games don't sell in the kinds of numbers that today's most popular games due. My sense, as someone who spends time on fighting games, though not MK, is that the game has a strong current of hype supporting it and so will do well for NetherRealm Studios in the end. NRS seems to be in the habit of cannibalizing its own game sales by releasing competitors to them in fairly short time spans. MKX is still being played as is Injustice 2, but chances are many of those players will migrate over to MK11. Compare that to Capcom which seems to give each modern entry in the Street Fighter franchise no less than 6 years on its own before releasing a successor. Mind you, SF5 might just be passing 3 million units sold at this time, 3 years after it's release! There have been complaints, mostly due to the grinding involved to earn in game currencies to unlock features, but otherwise I think most people are happy with it, at least from what I read around. They do seem to have crafted a compelling single player story and no doubt this will supplant Injustice 2 are NRS's most popular game at fighting game tournaments.
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    The Marvel movies culminating in Endgame are storytelling on a scale I don't think we've ever seen and might not ever again. No single movie was perfect, no single performance the greatest in all film history. But the sum of its parts will probably not be surpassed in my lifetime. The creative heads that assembled the pieces (pun intended) have pulled off something incredible, and yet, I think of a quality that we could have predicted given what they have delivered over and over again.
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    Macross figures

    Mazinger replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Gotta say I much prefer her facial animation in DYRL and FB2012. FB2012 Misa is best Misa.
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    Should be a standard option.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Mazinger replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Yeah, I'm like 96.35% sure that's not gonna be Macross. Unless Minmei got a new machine for the fighting.
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    "From a certain point of view" I'm 6 episodes in on Season 1 and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. The execution has been pretty good so far and though some of the plot points are predictable, you still relish those plots playing out.
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    Is the Full Scale McLaren a VIP exclusive? When's the preorder? Need to win the lottery first.
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    Nice fig!
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    Well then, this certainly seems to have become the pattern amongst franchise creators. Certainly being applied over in Star Trek and Wars, my beloved Capcom fighting games, and certainly anything with a superhero in it.
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    Yup. That was bad. I do wish there was a designated person on every writing staff looking for dumb plotting like this to point it out. They could have just as easily come up with some other 'Deus Ex Machina' attack on Control that could only have resulted from everything involved in the last moments of the show.
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    Cersai is gonna have that Muppet stuffed permanently and hung behind the Iron Thrown. Poor Elmo will never see it coming.
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    Uh, say what now? I knew about DYRL, but SDF Macross too? Hmm, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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    Yeah I'd like a real Trek series as well with Mount as the Captain. I hope CBS get their act together. I enjoyed the second season a lot more than the first and like the show overall more than Enterprise. With the exception of a handful of episodes, I would put Enterprise dead last amongst all the series, including The Animated Series. Voyager is a guilty pleasure of mine.
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    That is pretty crazy. Children's programming always keeping us on our toes!
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    Sad to hear it. I held out some hope even after communication dried up. Well, maybe MEP toys will get interested in doing hover tanks.
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    Wow, after reading all the different ways the Guardian was been used/abused I'm a little appalled!
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    I know that the Enterprise crew did use the Guardian of Forever at least one other time after the City on the Edge of Forever, in the animated series, but I can't help but wonder why it never showed up again in any other series. Or why no writer ever tried to work in a back story to the Guardian and whatever ancient alien species built it. Then again, who knows, maybe it was built in the future and traveled back to where it was when they found it.
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    Exactly. Here I am waiting for old gen games to get official ports and online matchplay. There's been more than a few classic games that were release for the PS3 gen that haven't been re-released for the current, PS4 gen. I love Capcom's legacy. Play SFV almost daily. But man, current business decisions really try my patience.
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    Do audiobooks count? I just finished Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem series. First one was incredible. Second one was awesome. Third is kind of a downer. Currently on China Mieville's The Scar, the second book from his Bas-Lag series. I loved Perdido Street Station and this one is proving a worthy follow-up.
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    Here's one of my bigger grips. It is admittedly very superficial: Ethan Peck, Spock on the show, doesn't come of as very-Leonard Nimoy-ish in his depiction of the Vulcan. It's not just that he doesn't resemble Nimoy much, but his delivery is flat where it should come across as inquisitive or contemplative. At this point I much prefer Zachary Quinto's portrayal and I'm not much of a fan of the Kelvin timeline movies. Strangely, I think Sonequa Martin-Green would have made a great Vulcan. I'll admit, when the script calls on her to emote, she definitely gives it her all, but she also pulls off stoic quite well. I just think her face screams Vulcan to me.
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