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    I've always really liked Clamp's style with Rayearth, and while it has been a few years, I swear some of those shots are just straight-up "we traced the comic page, then made it move". And I mean that in the best possible way. Also, I am hoping that this gets wide viewing, and I get to watch a whole new generation flip their tables when the heroes save Cephiro!
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    I laughed in an incredibly juvenile manner at this.
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    My intended point was that previously they have spent a lot of effort in making sure their AI upscaler's output still looked like it was game output, and now they're just letting it do whatever. It has been freed from the constraints that were needed to make people think it was ever a good idea, in an attempt to create a feature that goes beyond upscaling and into "enhancement".
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    I heard he actually died four years ago, it just took Death this long to work up the courage to tell Chuck.
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    I suspect the purple toes were brought in from the toy to keep the lower legs from looking too simple. Also the big chunky kneecaps, which seem to be from Soundwave more than any version of Bombshell. I suspect THAT was done to make Bombshell's legs look meaningfully different from Shrapnel's. It isn't really a good change, they look out of place on Bombshell's very-rounded body and absolutely wreck his beetle mode. It is, however, better than the original toy legs in robot mode, but I'd be very impressed if they managed to be worse.
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    I mean, that's what DLSS has been from the start. They're just taking the chains off now.
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    Actually, I think Shrapnel's animation model is true to the toy there. In humanoid mode, he has guns hanging below his wrists, not bug legs. They magically turn into bug legs when he transforms in the cartoon.It's a hard detail to implement at most sizes, and doubly so at this size. And I actually like Shrapnel with bug legs, despite a general toy-styling preference. I think his undercarriage was the least bug-like of the three, and it stuck out to me when seeing my friends' Bombshell and Kickback next to my Shrapnel. For the size, this is a really good Shrapnel, and it is much easier to forgive the missing toy details in something so small. And honestly; with the cartoon being so faithful to the toys here, there's not really a lot missing, just some colored stripes and a pair of vents that are near-impossible to add at this size... but the cartoon chest window's very wrong.
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    Omigosh! He's almost small enough to ride in the original Insecticon's cockpit!
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    The collapse of the Soviet Union is a good marker for divergence.I know they've gone back and revised "Soviet Union" into "Russian Federation", but it is a huge change in the world they couldn't predict or account for.
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    I mean, I've had that problem for years. Every time I reinstalled Win98(I believe we skipped past 95 back then), opened a File Explorer window, and went "where are my file extensions? Argh!" I am used to there being a million tiny things that need to be toggled before it is the way it is supposed to be.
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    I have always hated setting up a fresh Windows install. It takes forever before it's my computer again instead of A computer. We've just shifted the primary load from "install all the drivers so the hardware is minimally functional" to "change all the settings so Windows is minimally functional"
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    In before it's retconned to distrontium next season! Seriously, it genuinely makes me laugh to see them reinventing one of the earliest mistakes in Trek writing.
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    Great show, great character. She did a wonderful job. What else has she... oh. She's in the Lunar 2 remake as Old Luna. That hurts me more than it should.
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    It's all been downhill since Windows 2000. I am so glad "enshittify" wasn't a word when people were complaining about XP.
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    The chromed piece was a very poor choice. It makes the rest of the toy look much more unfinished than slavish toon-accuracy usually looks.
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    It's definitely original toy-accurate! But I think general consensus is that the original Devastator is the worst of the combiners and kind of a mess, especially from the back. Whether toy supremacists or toon supremacists, people seem to want a cleaned-up and idealized Devastator.
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    Delightful! Yoko Taro's fine. He's going "at least they want to make something instead of cancelling it to sell bitcoins"
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    It is such a hilarious mess.
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    They don't know, because the sales records were destroyed in the bombardment. Edit:: And I've nerd-sniped myself. I've spent the last couple hours imagining the Stealth-class frigates being named after pre-war movies, and which movies would be great or terrible. Like, who wouldn't want to be on the NUNS Kickboxer? That's just an awesome name. Or the NUNS Phantom Menace. But NUNS Broken Arrow? Heck naw, you'll never hear the end of the unsecured weapons jokes. The NUNS Die Harder? What does that even mean?! Maybe NUNS Independence Day, but I want the the ID4 to be a New Macross-class. We need this name attached to something with a really big gun. Also, Independence Day isn't nearly as cool after the aliens have ACTUALLY laid waste to your homeworld. And then I realized the timeline allows for an NUNS Goldmember, and I wept at the wound I have inflicted upon myself. .
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    Seems like that is a good way to accelerate research into long-range transporters, artificial wormholes, and transwarp conduits. People adapt and overcome. They may bend but they don't break. I mean, provided you want to write a hopeful and positive story that actually feels like Star Trek instead of just destroying everything to make some kind of point about the futility of optimism.
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    Maybe it's actually the Stealth-class cruiser, named in honor of a popular aviation film from before the end of Space War 1.
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    I'm incredibly disappointed they didn't do anything to fill the gap in the moon buggy roof. Since you aren't gonna be storing the sword blade there with the upgrade kit, there's no purpose to it and the gap is just unsightly.
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    Obviously the base is flying behind him just offscreen, like Optimus Prime's trailer.
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    This Genesis... it isn't the same Genesis as in Wrath of Khan, right? We don't have someone completely losing it while wielding a bomb that can unmake and remake a planet, possibly an entire star system? Because that would be bad.
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    I'm still hoping they sell off Warner's video game division to help put some black ink on the balance sheet.
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