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  1. 5 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

    Apologies for any offense. The folks at Seibertron.com said he was Chinese, and I assumed they knew better than I.

    Aha, I see. Well that's just shitty. Seibertron has dealt with plenty of Taiwanese sources before; they should be perfectly aware of Kevin Liu.

    4 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

    It's a geographical and political difference more than a cultural one. They speak Mandarin in Taiwan, and 95% of the population is ethnically Han (the majority ethnic group in mainland China, too).

    I would know; my family is from Taiwan. For comparison is it not fair for Austrians to not be mislabeled as "Germans" or Canadians to not be mislabeled as "Americans"?

    30 minutes ago, jenius said:

    So when buying from Amazon.co.jp, do you register for a brand new account unrelated to your US account? I assume you don't also get prime on that account? Are they linked somehow? I tried logging in once using my US info and, not surprisingly, got an error saying it didn't recognize the email address.

    Never personally used Amazon Japan, but I believe yes, I don't know, and no, just as you suspect. For the second one I would assume you have to sign up for Prime all over again with the Japanese account.

  2. Also, I would love to know what the Delta crew was smoking when they titled their whole franchise iteration Δ / Delta and yet the titular combat unit doesn't fly the delta-shaped variant sub-model.

    They should have titled the whole shebang Macross Walküre to be more on-point.

  3. On 10/19/2018 at 1:58 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

    Further to my last on the subject of Master File asserting the existence of NUNS VF-31S's, I did a little skim over the book's squadrons section and found that they aren't quite the same as Xaos's VF-31S... they seem to be just a VF-31A with the S-type monitor turret and forward-swept winglet.

    Ewwww. I am not partial to the tiny forward-swept design. Physics and purpose aside, I only like it if it's done to the length of the YF-19 and YF-29.

  4. Y'know, I would love to see a realistic take on the psychological effects of parents who are given a depopulated Earth and have children en masse. Realistically, that would almost certainly lead to generational clashes if not allow for rampant abuse.

    But, Japan would never show that. Like how anime never acknowledges the unfairness of shouldering the responsibility for reversing the declining birth rate on the generation who was given a terrible economy and told to suck it up.

  5. 28 minutes ago, Sailor Arashi said:

    Again, the entire reason for the "Earth restricts the best tech" plot existing is that Kawamori didn't think we'd buy the Macross Plus designs serving a cannon fodder role.  None of this is actually presented on-screen.

    .....yes? Is this board not full of knowledgeable nerds who have extra-screen knowledge?

  6. 1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

    Unless he was vacationing with his hippie brother Sybok, I call BS... an unkempt Vulcan is almost a contradiction in terms in a species that has favored laser-straight bangs and the clean shaven look for centuries with no sign of change.

    (So much so that the only unkempt Vulcans in Star Trek media are invariably the designated comic relief character, like T'Vau in How Much for Just the Planet? or T'Ryssa Chen in the TNG Relaunch.)

    Is that not an unnecessary limit on Vulcan culture? Consider if aliens visited a real life U.S. military base. Would it not be disappointingly unimaginative of them to assume that all persons on the base are representative of what U.S. military personnel look like during long term field missions? Or leave? Or while experiencing personal crises? Or that military standards are universal across Earth?

  7. Pre Vizsla's voice actor is helming a project set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, and nothing has been said thus far about excluding Sabine Wren!

    The project was first announced last November, Favreau was announced as the writer in March, and this week we learned the title and premise and got our first image of the titular gunfighter.

    https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/3/17934746/star-wars-jon-favreau-live-action-disney-show-the-mandalorian

    https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/04/star-wars-first-photo-from-the-mandalorian-revealed

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  8. On 10/1/2018 at 2:44 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

    It's actually from the ENT two-parter episode "In a Mirror, Darkly".  

    When Mirror!Archer and Mirror!Sato are going through the USS Defiant's main computer looking at the Federation historical database, the later details of their respective prime timeline service records are visible onscreen (and discussed in part).  The biographical data for those onscreen displays were what showed when Prime!Archer and Prime!Sato died, and in Sato's case the circumstances of her untimely demise.

    That's really all there is, though.  We might get more in one of the Discovery novels that's about the manhunt for Governor Kodos.

    Yup, on background graphics that the producers never realized would be visible with the HD camera angle. It will probably be ignored by a future canon work.

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    On 9/25/2018 at 11:44 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

    The fifth generation emigrant fleets Macross Frontier and Macross Galaxy both are noted to have unspecified, but large escort fleets spread out across dozens of light years of the ship's intended course.  The only fleet of that generation that was explicitly identified in terms of escort fleet size was Macross-29... at zero ships, due to its idiot government abolishing their defense forces entirely (the consequences of which crippled their economy).

    On 9/26/2018 at 12:51 AM, JB0 said:

    WHAT?! How did ANYONE think that was a good idea?

    The writers, for drama.

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