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    A space shark, obviously. The only natural predator of the space whale.
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    I'm the opposite. I am terrible at fightgames, and not really connected with the punch-em-up community. But the things often ooze style, and I love a game with a sense of style. So I have a stack of fighters anyways.
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    They coulda pushed it farther. If she'd passed a fruit to Hayate, she'd share an apple!
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    Well, I can't imagine integrating the zentradi into human society was a remotely smooth process after their brothers were responsible for armageddon, and there is PROBABLY some very-recently-buried racial resentment you don't want to stir back up. So... segregating the zentradi away from the proper humans because they MIGHT be prone to violence... that couldn't possibly upset any of the giant men with guns in the slightest. As long as they build separate facilities that are equal to the ones the proper humans enjoy, of course. But what about the half-zentradi, and the quarter-zentradi, and so on? What percentage do they have to be before they stop being greenies, I mean vulnerable to var syndrome? Better to just treat anyone with ANY zentradi blood as if they were full-blooded zentradi and ban everyone with any zentradi in their family tree from entering the city limits. For their own protection, of course. I wouldn't mind seeing someone TRY IT, but... it'd be a really bad idea.
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    Oh, god... that image is terrifying. Glorious, but terrifying. All in the same concert? Because that would be the show of the century. And Basara's doubtless helping, but not particularly because anyone asked him to. He's just found people that haven't LISTENED TO HIS SONG yet.
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    That would be absurdly amazing. I'm not even joking when I say I want to see that.
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    I think Lady M is actually Dr. Chiba. After his song energy theory was proven and he contributed to saving the universe, his perhaps-excessive fandom fell over the edge into obsessive madness. He now dresses in classic idol costumes and demands everyone call him Minmay. Lady M is a name people use for him in public to avoid any embarrassing explanations, and let Dr. Chiba's legacy live on unstained. I might be wrong, though.
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    I don't own Eternal Darkness, but I seem to remember that being passed around as two of the crazier things it does.
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    I wish they'd gotten the credits right, aesthetically. Woulda added a lot to the parody. But regardless, I lost it at "Robotech theme composed by: The Yune Brothers". Best laugh I've had all year. And man, that tune takes me back. I still love the "Star Wars Lite" feel of Robotech's music, and the film scroll at the beginning still gets me. EVERY show should begin with a film scroll.
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    That's the one that "resets" to the title screen and claims your save is corrupted, isn't it?
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    Well, there's definitely some technological enhancement. We SAW the exhaust from the underskirt rockets boosting their jumps.
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    It's official: I suck as a Macross fan. Never noticed.
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    And that VF-11 pilot getting shot up and ejecting.
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    I should clearly rewatch Frontier. Usually, sci-fi embeds the document in something thicker than a sheet of paper, and I don't think I've ever seen one that was ragged and torn before.
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    But it's HUMAN technology. Of the near-future, even. Certainly, they've gotten a leg up on us stuck hear in the real world due to reverse-engineering of alien tech, but it should still be recognizably technology. And Walkure is surprisingly grounded in other respects. They aren't freely dancing through the air, even though gravity control IS a technology that exists in the setting. They're standing on forcefields, rocket-assisted jumps taking them from place to place. They don't carry forcefield generators and hologram projectors ON them, they rely on external devices that are recognizably technological in nature. If they don't try to explain the costumes, I'll be very disappointed. Unrelated: Did anyone else notice that the tattered Walkure audition flyier Freyja pulls out of her cloak isn't actually printed on paper? It's got animation, so it's some sort of active display device. I thought that was a pretty cool touch, and ALMOST doable now with OLED or e-ink(albeit not at anything near throwaway costs, nor that level of durability).
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    Hey, the GBA Robotech! Got the little SD Valk in there too? That's the only part of the game I kept when I sold it. Wish I still had my GameBoy and Intellivision boxes. Threw them all out in a fit of madness. ... Man, I have GOT to get all my games in one place some day for a photo op. Studio II through PS4. Maybe figure out how many duplicate VCS cartridges I have while I'm at it. I know it's a lot. I think I have FIVE copies of PacMan, which is at least four too many.
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    I did feel it was weird that their spacesuits and helmets apparently evaporated during the transformation. In honesty, that's the only part of the "magical girl" routine that really bothered me. I think it's gonna take some good technobabble to explain that away, and I want to see them try. My first thought was holographic overlay erasing the helmet/spacesuit's visible presence, but it is a justification with a lot of issues.
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    Pacify? She had the staff in the Macross shooting guns at Myung. Not WELL, mind you, but...I do concede it wasn't exactly the same. Just that the concept showed up there too.
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    I'd wager that the unlicensed transforming robots don't move anywhere near the volume TakaraTomy expects.
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    For the same reason they didn't use unmanned drones, be it AI or remote-piloted, in Frontier, even though the X-9 was the equal of the YF-19 and YF-21, only smaller and without a soft squishy center. Butts in seats is way cooler. I'd argue that gravity controllers likely still have the same flaw they had all the way back in SDF Macross. They only affect a very small area around them. A heavy object with high velocity changes will likely still see gravity controllers ripping loose just like they did all the way back in Booby Trap. The boomerang drones can get away with it because they have such low momentum(and if something goes wrong, no one cares if a battery pack and a holoprojector dies. Flesh&blood pilots get more consideration for hardware failure). Well, I know everyone is all "singing to make zentradi go fight? Sounds like Macross II", but my response was more "Didn't Sharon Apple do that?" And someone flying through a missile cloud will never NOT be cool.
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    Man, to heck with all this. I WANT to see HG sue Big West. And none of this "settle out of court, sealed outcome, sworn to secrecy" nonsense. I want this to go a real trial, with HG's original distribution contract entered as evidence in the public record. They claim they own the entire franchise outside Japan? Fine, they can prove it. Show EVERYONE the documents that say so. If it happens, and they actually produce a contract that says what they claim, I will publicly apologize for ever speaking ill of them. Hell, I'll go out and buy every copy of Shadow Chronicles still plugging the shelves at my local retail facilities. I'll even WATCH it. Once per disk! I may be watching Shadow Chroncles non-stop for WEEKS!
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    I'm assuming the fin funnel storage bay is where a missile palette would go on a normal combat mission fighter. Or possibly everyone has forcefield drones for defense, and Walkure just makes unconventional use of them. Either way makes sense.
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    Yeah. Wireless power! Tesla's dream still lives!
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    I'm gonna buck the trend and say something that will likely upset some peoplee. *deep breath* I thought the "magical girl" segment was actually REALLY FRIGGIN' AWESOME. I mean, not the obvious theme so much, but the technology on demonstration is utterly fascinating. While the podcast noted the boomerangs appeared to do whatever they wanted to, it looked to me like they only do TWO things. They project holograms, and they project forcefields. It's just that those two technologies happen to lend themselves to a lot of creative reapplication. And with micro-forcefield projectors being a thing, it seems safe to assume their glowing "auras" are a personal protective field(Maybe powered by song energy? Is Dr. Chiba getting royalties for this?). I'm not going to question the skirt rockets yet. I reserve the right to reconsider this at a future point, as it seems dangerous to any legs present in said skirts. Though I guess forcefield auras would mitigate that problem. So yeah, I really enjoyed the part with Walkure.
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    While I obviously did go in blind(no offense to you guys, pr'ly gonna grab the recording in a little while and listen to your son-err, thoughts), I didn't really think it was a mystery for the ages. I just thought it was funny as heck.
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