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    Regult-CHANs, even! Not lyin', I laughed at that. ... Almost as much as I laughed at the voice cast. Credits are rollin' along, we get to the voice cast, and suddenly THIS happens: So, ummm... yeah. That sure is a heckuva casting job there.
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    Yeah, preview version of the first episode. Apparently, it carries the episode number of 0.89.
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    That depends on how much of the problem is Sony's reflow oven being misconfigured and how much is just engineering flaws. I don't think anyone outside Sony Computer Entertainment's electrical engineering department can answer that. I really think a lot of the problem is likely endemic to the design. The PS3 and XBox 360 were some of the first high-performance machines designed to be RoHS-compliant, and no one had any real experience with leadless solder at that point in time. I suspect much of what people happily heap on MS and Sony as incompetent design, defective QA, and poor manufacturing is actually the result of Europe suddenly telling everyone they can't use the good solder anymore and everyone scrambling to figure out alternatives.
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    Yeah. Actual reflow ovens have a carefully constructed thermal profile, to ensure they get the solder hot enough to melt completely without heating everything else up enough to damage components, and to avoid thermal stresses from components heating up or cooling down too rapidly. Game machine repair "reflow" does none of this, really. Points for the heatgun, though. It's actually using temperatures adequate to completely melt the solder, and the controlled application of heat reduces the chance of damage in the absence of a proper rampup/rampdown phase.
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    It'd be a huge deal. Reballing a BGA part requires specialized equipment. Also, the oven trick is not ACTUALLY a proper reflow, and is only a short-term fix. If you have a reflow oven, that's one thing. But if you're just using your kitchen oven at PS350, that's somethin' else entirely.
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    I don't think any of us know. But he looked really young in Mac7 for a dude in his fifties. And if that's any indication, he's probably STILL still in the prime of life.
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    99% of the human race!
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    In fairness to Jedi... what WE perceive to be an opening may not be the actual case, given it's a fight between jedi. They have telepathy, telekinesis, and some degree of precognition. To the extent that one jedi with a sword is an effective force against multiple trained soldiers with guns. I would actually EXPECT those abilities to drastically alter a swordfight's appearance, though in the original movies it's only wildly obvious when Luke is leaping twenty feet through the air doing somersaults. In that context, I find the fight between ObiWan and Darth Vader on the Death Star interesting in how conventional it looks. Through the lens of the franchise, it has a very cautious feel to it, as though neither side is certain of the other's capabilities, but know better than to take their foe lightly. Darth's smack-talk aside, it looks like a fight neither party is sure they can win. Of course, out of continuity, what happened is Lucas felt lightsabers should have a mass effect to make them feel more like real swords, and then in Jedi he was like "nah, lightsabers are weightless now, let's go wild with the acrobatics", a weightless blade looks a lot different in action than a weighted one, and I'm reading way too much into this. But that line of thought is a lot less fun!
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    That uniform is really struggling to maintain structural integrity over those shoulders.
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    And the electronics in me is wondering how hard it would be to strip and repurpose the LCD panel in a television for a "smart glass" panel . Once you strip the enclosure and backlight, Black screen = opaque, white screen = transparent. Have to build a decent frame for it so it doesn't look like you have a busted TV tucked in the corner, of course. On-topic, I feel like that Yoko should have flames on the bunny suit, like her bikini top did.
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    It was semi-canon. Weird multi-tiered canonicity rules. Not that it matters. A fun story is a fun story, no matter how "real" it is. And no amount of legitimacy can save an awful one.
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    I was going to say "Predaking or GTFO" but that actually DOES look pretty cool.
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    77.
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    I thought it was funny. Never mind.
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    Hey, at least the dinosaur-city transformation has two distinct modes. Optimus Primal doesn't even make sense, he's got two different animal forms and no machine form. Not even distinctly different animals, they're both primates!
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    RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
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    Pretty much, yeah. We could just rename this "The Jenius Girl Speculation Thread" for a few weeks now. Also, why is Mustang not wearing fancy dress clothes like everyone else? I'm confused.
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    Given the positive rainbow that Max and Millia created, purple hair doesn't mean she isn't Komillia's child. I'm holdin' onto that dream! Yes, and ewww. Please, Basara only had eyes for his guitar. And maybe Sivil, but I think that was just because she appreciated his song more, ummm, thoroughly than most.
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    I was gonna wait for the crowds to die down, but if the current rate of people walking up and just blurting out spoilers continues, I'm gonna have to see it soon before someone just narrates the entire dang film to me.
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    But, but... I want to see Komillia! It's the vestigial Robotechie in me, I suppose, that feels it is important to see what happened to their first kid. Just as long as she doesn't have a blonde afro this time.
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    And thus does Komillia return to the stage as Mirage's mother!
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    Happened with the original Star Trek 3. The destruction of the Enterprise was supposed to be a surprise, and first they learned it wouldn't be was when they saw the TV ad.
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    Two words. Klan. Klan. In the right person, micloning can cause a DRASTIC change in shape.
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    Or when they use a micloning chamber? There IS precedent for people undergoing large physical changes with size change.
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    I was thinking less "because they'll never meet all their promises" and more along the lines of "because then the donation train would stop."
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