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    Maybe the DRAM shortage will see the return of bubble memories!
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    The nice thing about the combaticons is the toys are even less detailed than the cartoon, so I don't have to feel too cheated by the current hyper-toon-accuracy focus. The OG Brawl toy in particular looks like he just got in from Battlezone(which would actually be a cool repaint now that I think about it). And man, Swindle's animation model was just made from whole cloth, wasn't it? They didn't even look at the toy... which is no great loss, there's not a lot to take FROM the toy even when it's fully-stickered(and I KNOW some of the animation models are based on unstickered toys). These guys are impressive as heck for what they're doing, even if they aren't really my jam. And I do appreciate that they use the vehicle windshield for Swindle's chest instead of stashing it and using a fake-windshield, moreso given how many fake parts ARE on the robot.
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    I just hope Atari somehow winds up with WB's video game division once everything shakes out. I hope they're trying to figure out a bid. Mostly I want this because the current wearers of Atari's skin actually care about gaming history and the multiple legacies WB currently holds within their storage shed. When WB purchased Midway back in 2010, they didn't just attain the Williams-Bally-Midway video game library, which is significant in its own right(and not just because Mortal Kombat). At that time Midway was the owner of Atari Games, the arcade division of Atari, which had been split out into its own company in the 80s. Atari history's a complicated mess (that flows into and out of Warner multiple times!), but the point is there are two Ataris and one's entombed within WB while the other is active in the documentation and preservation of video game history(part of which is selling old video games). It is not an exaggeration to say WB's game division is neglecting a legacy that goes back to Pong, and neither Netflix nor Paramount actually wants anything to do with it. ... And it will be funny to see Atari buying Atari.
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    Honestly, it's amazing Mylene DOESN'T get violent with Basara.
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    I've wondered about that before too. The general presentation seems like they're disposable "parts", and extensive medical treatment is worse than popping a new clone out of the tubes. But Britai's cybernetic eye seems to contradict that. My best guess is that the rank&file are disposable, but the accumulated experience of the leaders makes them is considered important enough for serious medical treatment to keep them going.
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    Oh yeah, that was really cool. Even if I have thematic gripes. I've said before I don't see Megatron as a STEALTH bomber. He wants you to know he's coming, and know there's not a dang thing you can do to stop him. Less B-2, more B-1. ... I'd make him an XB-70, but that's reserved because I still want the Valkyrie to be Silverbolt some day.
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    And also to save lost puppies!
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    I feel a lot the same. My preferences don't necessarily call for realistic alt modes, so much as realistic transformations. I dislike some of the parts-origami that exists in modern Transformers where they try to make the robot not look like the car, I want robots where the chest is made of car roof and the feet are obviously the trunk.
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    Actually, having looked at some photos of the Valve Steam Frame, I have tracking concerns. The camera locations suggest rather poor downward visibility, so hands held near to the body will get lost. I've had this problem with my Quest 3, and it is frustrating since I DIDN'T have it with my Rift(obviously) or Quest 1(which had a rather good controller-tracking volume). I am an adult, I have a strong concept of object permanency, and I don't like the idea that my hands stop existing if I'm not looking at them. That said, Valve's camera distribution does look to offer a better field of coverage than the Quest 3's. But I'd prefer prefer downward coverage instead of upward coverage. Or, you know, MORE CAMERAS.
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    The Nintendon't GabeCube.
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    I mean, she's nothing right now, so all the Insecticons remain Decepticons. She was never made into a toy for Beetras, much less adapted into Transformers, and Hasbro as of yet hasn't seen the need to make an homage to an obscure never-was toy. Just a neat piece of non-Transformer robot art. ... But yeah, she'd probably be an Autobot if she did finally escape her decades-long purgatory.
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    I am more interested in the Steam Frame than I expected, dumb name aside. Kinda sad they've given up on the upmarket premium configuration, even optionally. The Knuckles controllers were rad, and having a fully-tracked play area is a major benefit. But they have the sales numbers, they clearly know Index hasn't sold well enough to justify an Index 2.
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    Discord hasn't really been devastating to actual forums to me, that damage was done with social media and Reddit(which is just the last and most successful "mega-forum", and I've always hated mega-forums). What Discord HAS done is completely eviscerate IRC. Also made a lot of stuff far less accessible as people started using it as free file-hosting instead of setting up an actual website for their projects. But it has been a gradual grind, as communities fell to mega-forums that covered a lot of topics and were too big to have actual communities, then facespace and xitter came along and made the mega-forums look focused and cozy. I do miss the old days, with actual communities that were accessible and discoverable. ... Also, BRING BACK WEBRINGS.
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    More like Dead Optimus, Devastation Optimus, and Unpainted Unstickered Bootleg Optimus.
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    Having read a whole bunch of the manga... that's how I hope it ends too.
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    Shocked to see he died of illness. His image was such I just assumed it was a motorcycle accident or something. I need to fire the old XBox up and throw Ninja Gaiden Black in to honor him. Tekken's Harada posted some words about his friend/senpai(?)/rival. And linked back to an older post about his relationship with Itagaki, which is a good read. I wish I wasn't seeing it because it became a eulogy.
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    My mind went the opposite direction: animated dazzle camouflage.
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    Hopefully, I'm in one of those places no one ever talks about because the colony mission was quiet and uneventful, and found a peaceful planet far from any bullcrap.
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    Zentradi don't have to worry about hereditary diseases, since there's no inheritance. Protoculture thought of everything! ... Well, everything except "how to dispose of an evil time machine", "how to dispose of a galaxy-wide brain asploder", "how to stop your clone army from waging tntal war across your empire", and "how to keep interdimensional space vampires from destroying your civilization". Minor details, though. They thought of all the important things!
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    Aww heck yeah! I believe Alternator Shockwave was my first Transformer as an adult. No longer was I too old for toy robots!
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    Makes sense. Disease won't rip through an entire unit, and can't be attacked by a custom-engineered bioweapon that targets a specific genetic sequence. On the other hand, it results in soldiers with diverse heights and builds, complicating supply of equipment. But the protoculture seemed to have solved supply lines with their typical excess.
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    I'm glad to hear he survived the zentradi bombardment in 2010.
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    Because Starscream's a ghost! Sometimes. If this abomination of a line continues(and it shouldn't, it is a nightmarishly bad idea compounded by terrible execution), they can do Trapjaw as a sharkticon.
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    That becomes overt trademark infringement as opposed to the gray area of reverse-engineered molds. Hasbro doesn't own red trucks that become robots, they don't even own a specific implementation of that concept. Physical objects are not typically afforded copyright protection. But the logos are protected by trademark and easily identified by customs as unauthorized and thus illegal uses of that trademark. If you want your toy robots to make it into the country, you won't print autobrands on them.
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    How about we split the difference? Onyx Prime is why there's mechanical beasts, like the dinobots, predacons, insecticons, Sky Lynx, etc, and Beast Wars-style forms that actually look like animals are a more modern "disguise" technology, evolved from the invention of pretender shells? ... And the mixed organic/techno stuff like Fangry are just abominations mocking Primus's light.
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